Things that go bump in the night

Our house sits on four and a quarter acres of which all of it is trees except for a large front yard and a smaller backyard. Our house sits in the corner of the cleared area and is surrounded by very tall - and mostly dead - pine trees. On average they're probably well over 100 feet tall. I have a huge fear of them falling over onto the house, the pool, and/or the cars.

At 3 a.m. this morning there was a huge crash which caused both Lincoln and I to sit straight up in bed. There was a loud bang, the rustle of leaves, and what sounded like breaking glass. I immediately thought a tree had fallen on the house. Luckily it was just the hanging plant in our bedroom crashing onto the dresser below it and knocking everything off. The hook, which obviously wasn't strong enough to hold such a heavy plant, had come out of the ceiling. The only thing that broke was a clay figurine clock that we got in Athens, Greece last year. That clock has now been broken three times, once from falling off the dresser when we shut it and twice from things falling on it. It is the unluckiest souvenir we've ever owned and every time we glue it back together and move it somewhere else the thing above it falls off the wall (or ceiling). Obviously we need to just throw it away. On the other hand, the hand-blown glass flowers from Venezuela that were also on the dresser survived and the last time something fell and broke the clock it missed the beautiful statue that we purchased in Corinth, Greece.

So I guess the question is do we get rid of the clock and hope things stop falling off the walls or keep the clock so that it continues to protect the more expensive and more sentimental pieces from being destroyed?

Or do we just need to get better at securing things to our walls and ceiling?