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“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

“The memories which peaceful country scenes call up, are not of this world, nor of its thoughts and hopes. Their gentle influence may teach us how to weave fresh garlands for the graves of those we loved: may purify our thoughts, and bear down before it old enmity and hatred; but beneath all this, there lingers, in the least reflective mind, a vague and half-formed consciousness of having held such feelings long before, in some remote and distant time, which calls up solemn thoughts of distant times to come, and bends down pride and worldliness beneath it.”

Source: Oliver Twist

“Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.”

Women Nature Memories Materials Memorable Magnet Preconceptions

Book:The life I really lived: a novel

Source: The life I really lived: a novel

“Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...”

Nature Memories Childhood Mountain Summer Smell Memorable Unexpected Lakes Scent Fleeting June Our Memories Momentary Childhood Memories Sweet Potatoes

Author:Diane Ackerman

“God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.”

Might Nature Memories Rose Our Memories December

Author:James M. Barrie

“All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.”

Trying Reality Water Nature Memories Perfect Forever Get Back Flood Good Memories Flooding Water Of Life Water Is Life

Book:What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction

Source: What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction

“Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.”

Knows Nature Memories Justice Decision Deals Party Politician Vote Voting

Author:Wendell Berry

“To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.”

Source: The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress

“Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.”

Source: Taggerung

“Perhaps a creature of so much ingenuity and deep memory is almost bound to grow alienated from his world, his fellows, and the objects around him. He suffers from a nostalgia for which there is no remedy upon earth except as it is to be found in the enlightenment of the spirit--some ability to have a perceptive rather than an exploitive relationship with his fellow creatures.”

World Earth Spirit Suffering Found Grows Nature Memories Ability Objects Creatures Enlightenment Fellows Bounds Nostalgia Remedy Alienation Ingenuity

Book:The Invisible Pyramid: A Library of America eBook Classic

Source: The Invisible Pyramid: A Library of America eBook Classic

“The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. --as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS”

Source: The Lincoln Mailbag: America Writes to the President, 1861-1865

“We have such a brief opportunity to pass on to our children our love for this Earth, and to tell our stories. These are the moments when the world is made whole. In my children's memories, the adventures we've had together in nature will always exist.”

World Children Made Whole Moments Stories Earth Together Opportunity Nature Memories Adventure Our Children My Children Our Love Children And Nature

Book:Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

Source: Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

“For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed.”

Men Life Ends Time Understanding Nature Memories Secret Existence Seeing Seasons Relation Infinite Cycles Infinity Anticipation Timing Incapable Nothingness Concealed Timeliness

Author:Blaise Pascal