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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

“nature has not changed. The night is still unsullied, the stars still twinkle, and the wild thyme smells as sweetly now as it did then ... We may be afflicted and unhappy, but no one can take from us the sweet delight which is nature's gift to those who love her and her poetry.”

May Stills Night Stars Nature Changed Sweet Delight Smell Unhappy Thyme

Author:George Sand

“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

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

Source: Bluebeard's Egg

“Those herbs which perfume the air most delightfully, not passed by as the rest, but, being trodden upon and crushed, are three; that is, burnet, wild thyme and watermints. Therefore, you are to set whole alleys of them, to have the pleasure when you walk or tread.”

Whole Three Nature Walks Pleasure Air Healthy Smell Scent Perfume Crushed Herbs Alleys Thyme Herbs And Spices

Author:Francis Bacon

“That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet.”

Nature Air Smell Yield Scent Violet Sweetest

Book:The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes

Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes

“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

“Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.”

Past Nature Smell Scent Criminal Mind Revive

Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“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

“Our minds, as well as our bodies, have need of the out-of-doors. Our spirits, too, need simple things, elemental things, the sun and the wind and the rain, moonlight and starlight, sunrise and mist and mossy forest trails, the perfumes of dawn and the smell of fresh-turned earth and the ancient music of wind among the trees.”

“If I were to choose the sights, the sounds, the fragrances I most would want to see and hear and smell--among all the delights of the open world--on a final day on earth, I think I would choose these: the clear, ethereal song of a white-throated sparrow singing at dawn; the smell of pine trees in the heat of the noon; the lonely calling of Canada geese; the sight of a dragon-fly glinting in the sunshine; the voice of a hermit thrush far in a darkening woods at evening; and--most spiritual and moving of sights--the white cathedral of a cumulus cloud floating serenely in the blue of the sky.”

“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

“There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.”

Firsts Fear Nature Sweet Periods Rain Smell Curious Breeze Wind And Rain Rainy Weather Inspirational Rain Happy Rain Rains Beauty Smell Of Rain

Book:The Names

Source: The Names