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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

“Da Vinci was as great a mechanic and inventor as were Newton and his friends. Yet a glance at his notebooks shows us that what fascinated him about nature was its variety, its infinite adaptability, the fitness and the individuality of all its parts. By contrast what made astronomy a pleasure to Newton was its unity, its singleness, its model of a nature in which the diversified parts were mere disguises for the same blank atoms.”

Source: The Common Sense of Science

“It is a pleasure to a real lover of Nature to give winter all the glory he can, for summer will make its own way, and speak its own praises.”

Way Giving Real Speak Nature Pleasure Lovers Summer Glory Praise Winter Real Love

Book:The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals

Source: The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals

“By firm immutable immortal laws Impress'd on Nature by the GREAT FIRST CAUSE, Say, MUSE! how rose from elemental strife Organic forms, and kindled into life; How Love and Sympathy with potent charm Warm the cold heart, the lifted hand disarm; Allure with pleasures, and alarm with pains, And bind Society in golden chains.”

Source: The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts ... The Economy of Vegetation, and The Loves of the Plants. With Philosophical Notes

“Nature, always inartistic, takes pleasure in creating the impossible.”

Nature Pleasure Impossible Creating

Book:The Selected Work of Jerome K. Jerome

Source: The Selected Work of Jerome K. Jerome

“Nature is neither pleasant nor painful. It is all intelligence and beauty. Pain and pleasure are in the mind.”

Mind Pain Nature Pleasure Beauty Intelligence Painful Pleasant Pain And Pleasure

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Today, luxury resides in everything that is becoming rare: communion with nature, silence, meditation, slowness rediscovered, the pleasure of living out of step with others, studious idleness, the enjoyment of the major works of the mind–these are all privileges that cannot be bought because they are literally priceless.”

Mind Today Nature Pleasure Silence Steps Meditation Becoming Majors Privilege Luxury Enjoyment Communion Idleness Priceless Slowness Studious Communion With Nature

Author:Pascal Bruckner

“In that sweet mood when pleasure loves to pay Tribute to ease; and, of its joy secure, The heart luxuriates with indifferent things, Wasting its kindliness on stocks and stones, And on the vacant air.”

Heart Joy Nature Pleasure Pay Air Sweet Stones Safety Mood Secure Ease Indifferent Tribute Vacant Kindliness Pleasure Love

Book:The Poems of William Wordsworth

Source: The Poems of William Wordsworth

“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