Best garden & scent Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Gardening Year

“I loved the scent of the wallflowers in the evening.”

“I find you in all small and lovely things; in the little fishes like flames in the green water, in the furred and stupid softness of bumble-bees fat as laughter, in all the chiming radiance of warmth and light and scent in the summer garden.”

Source: Selected letters of Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain, 1920-1935

“August is ripening grain in the fields blowing hot and sunny, the scent of tree-ripened peaches, of hot buttered sweet corn on the cob. Vivid dahlias fling huge tousled blossoms through gardens and joe-pye-weed dusts the meadow purple.”

Tree Fields Sweet Huge Garden Hot Dust Weed Grain Scent Purple Vivid Corn Sunny August Meadows Fling Peaches Ripening Dahlias Corn On The Cob Sweet Corn

Book:The Shape of a Year

Source: The Shape of a Year

“Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture windows, adopt pets and Boston ferns, and scent everything that touches our lives.”

House Our Lives Garden Window Ancient Hunger Pet Scent Boston Lawns Ferns

Book:The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us

Source: The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us

“It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.”

Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses

“Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind. A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!”

Night House Born Hours Chance Love Is Wind Flower Garden Hot Plant Seeds Colour Sunshine Weed Wet Scent Sprung

Book:The Forsyte Saga 1: The Man of Property: The Forsyte Saga: Book One

Source: The Forsyte Saga 1: The Man of Property: The Forsyte Saga: Book One

“But in the garden the sun still shone. The innumerable bees hummed. The scent of thyme hung on the air. But only the Natterjack was there to breathe the fragrant essence of it. He and the garden were waiting. They were waiting for more children. They didn't care how long they waited. They had all the time in the world. -The Time Garden, Edward Eager”

World Children Long Stills Care Waiting Sun Air Garden Essence Breathe Bees Hung Scent Thyme

Book:The Time Garden

Source: The Time Garden

“The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.”

Light Rich Doors Tree Wind Summer Garden Filled Rose Studios Heavy Delicate Scent Perfume Flowering Lilac Summer Wind

Book:The Picture Of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray

“Catelyn had never liked this godswood. She had been born a Tully, at Riverrun far to the south, on the Red Fork of the Trident. The godswood there was a garden, bright and airy, where tall redwoods spread dappled shadows across tinkling streams, birds sang from hidden nests, and the air was spicy with the scent of flowers.”

Born Air Flower Bird Shadow Red Garden South Spread Streams Tall Scent Nests Forks Airy Spicy Redwoods

Book:George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons

Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons

“What do we look for as reward? Some little sounds, and scents, and scenes A small hand darting strawberry-ward A woman's aprons full of greens. The sense that we have brought to birth Out of the cold and heavy soil, The blessed fruits and flowers of earth Is large reward for our toil.”