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“No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.”

Giving Garden Photograph Smell Crunch Crunch Time Japanese Gardens

Author:J. Carter Brown

“Scents bring memories, and many memories bring nostalgic pleasure. We would be wise to plan for this when we plant a garden.”

Would Be Nature Memories Pleasure Wise Plans Garden Plant Smell Nostalgia Scent Being Wise Nostalgic

Book:The Gardening Year

Source: The Gardening Year

“As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.”

Spirit Food Taste Garden Smell Meat Appetite Mint Herbs And Spices Taste And Smell

Author:Pliny the Elder

“The rich, sweet smell of the hayricks rose to his chamber window; the hundred perfumes of the little flower-garden beneath scented the air around; the deep-green meadows shone in the morning dew that glistened on every leaf as it trembled in the gentle air: and the birds sang as if every sparkling drop were a fountain of inspiration to them.”

Source: The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club

“If you can't smell the fragrance don't come into the garden of Love. if you are unwilling to undress don't enter into the stream of Truth. Stay where you are, don't come our way”

Ifs Way Garden Smell Streams Where You Are Fragrance Unwilling

Author:Rumi

“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”

Source: Bluebeard's Egg

“A man should not love the moon. An ax should not lose weight in his hand. His garden should smell of rotting apples, And grow a fair amount of nettles.”

Men Should Hands Grows Loses Amount Moon Fairs Garden Weight Smell Apples Lose Weight Rotting Nettles

Author:Czeslaw Milosz

“The action of Pity leaps quicker than light from the highest place to the lowest to bring healing and joy, whatever the cost to itself. It changes darkness into light and evil into good. But it will not, at the cunning tears of Hell, impose on good the tyranny of evil. Every disease that submits to a cure shall be cured: but we will not call blue yellow to please those who insist on having jaundice, nor make a midden of the world's garden for the sake of some who cannot abide the smell of roses.”

World Inspirational Light Action Joy Evil Religious Healing Darkness Hell Tears Please Cost Disease Highest Garden Blue Rose Sake Smell Tyranny Pity Cures Leap Yellow Submit Lowest Cunning Jaundice

Author:C. S. Lewis

“He just seems as cool as ever. I can smell him. Even on the other side, there is smell. Like, when babies are born, there's two smells-one is chicken soup, which is the flesh, and the other is lilacs, which is coming from the spiritual garden. The spirit has a lilac smell.”

I Can Two Seems Spiritual Spirit Sides Born Baby Garden Smell Flesh Chickens Soup Lilac Chicken Soup

Author:Carlos Santana

“My dad got me a chemistry book one Christmas and I burnt the garden shed down. I remember there was the most beautiful smell forever after in the remains.”

Book Beautiful Remember Forever Dad Garden Remains My Dad Smell Chemistry Shed Ever After

Author:Beth Orton

“I love paperwhites - they smell heavenly and you can often pick them up from a big home improvement store garden center already planted in pretty terra cotta pots.”

Home Bigs Picks Garden Smell Stores Improvement Heavenly Pot Home Improvement

Author:Clinton Smith

“A garden is the place millions of people go to touch the earth, to smell flowers - to use some of that fabled human brain power in the cause of better participating with natural processes in the place they call home. It serves as an art project, an organic produce market, a spiritual practice, a pharmacy. It offers ongoing lessons in ecology, biology, chemistry, geology, meteorology. Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time. It bestows on its practitioners a genuine sense of admiration for the plants, the soil, the sun, the water.”

“I never seem to find what I'm looking for, though. I suppose I feel, these days, too aware of schedules and things, to let myself get lost in the rain. Anyway, I came back home, and it was still raining, and as I was approaching the driveway of the house, and the front garden with its bushy flower bed, I caught a cooking smell from somewhere on the air. I don't know why, exactly, but it appealed to me as a Nagai Kafu moment.”

Knows Feels Stills Moments Home Seems House Lost Air Fronts Flower Bed Rain Garden Cooking Caught Smell These Days Schedules Back Home Driveway

Author:Quentin S. Crisp

“When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden.”

Two Spiritual Flower Baby Garden Smell Flesh Two Things Chickens Soup Lilies New Baby Chicken Soup

Author:Carlos Santana

“What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”

“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

“A black cat among roses, phlox, lilac-misted under a quarter moon, the sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock. The garden is very still. It is dazed with moonlight, contented with perfume.”

Stills Night Black Sweet Moon Garden Cat Rose Smell Quarters Perfume Moonlight Lilac Dazed Black Cat

Book:Che ore sono?: poesie

Source: Che ore sono?: poesie

“Her father had taught her about hands. About a dog's paws. Whenever her father was alone with a dog in a house he would lean over and smell the skin at the base of its paw. This, he would say, as if coming away from a brandy snifter, is the greatest smell in the world! A bouquet! Great rumours of travel! She would pretend disgust, but the dog's paw was a wonder: the smell of it never suggested dirt. It's a cathedral! her father had said, so-and-so's garden, that field of grasses, a walk through cyclamen--a concentration of hints of all the paths the animal had taken during the day.”

Ifs World Said Hands Father House Walks Animal Wonder Path Taken Dog Fields Taught Garden Skins Smell Grass Concentration Disgusting Dirt Hints Cathedrals Paws Rumours Bouquets Brandy

Book:The English Patient

Source: The English Patient

“Needle was Robb and Bran and Rickon, her mother and her father, even Sansa. Needle was Winterfell's grey walls, and the laughter of its people. Needle was the summer snows, Old Nan's stories, the heart tree with its red leaves and scary face, the warm earthy smell of the glass gardens, the sound of the north wind rattling the shutters of her room. Needle was Jon Snow's smile. He used to mess my hair and call me "little sister," she remembered, and suddenly there were tears in her eyes.”

Source: A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows

“And then he was kissing her, and she was struck by his nearness, his solidity, his smell. It was of the garden and the earth and the sun. When Cassandra opened her eyes, she realized she was crying. She wasn't sad, though, these were the tears of being found, of having come home after a long time away.”

Long Home Eye Earth Found Sun Cry Tears Kissing Long Time Garden Smell Coming Home Her Eyes Time Away Solidity Kissing Her

Book:The Forgotten Garden: A Novel

Source: The Forgotten Garden: A Novel

“Violets smell like burnt sugar cubes that have been dipped in lemon and velvet.”

Has Beens Garden Smell Sugar Violet Lemons Velvet Cubes

Book:A Natural History of the Senses

Source: A Natural History of the Senses

“My garden, with its silence and pulses of fragrance that come and go on the airy undulations, affects me like sweet music. Care stops at the gates, and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.”

Care Nature Silence Sweet Goes On Garden Smell Bars Gates Scent Fragrance Pulse Comes And Goes Airy Sweet Music

Book:Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country

Source: Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country

“Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.”

Knows Earth Death Nature Dying Garden Breaths Smell Decay Scent Impermanence Desolation Regeneration Fertilizer Garden Love Compost

Book:Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside: With Poems and Ballads

Source: Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside: With Poems and Ballads

“The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I could look down into the vegetable garden enclosed within its tall pale of reeds - rich chocolate earth studded emerald green, frothed with the white of cauliflowers, jeweled with the purple globes of eggplant and the scarlet wealth of tomatoes.”