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“In our bones we need the natural curves of hills, the scent of chaparral, the whisper of pines, the possibility of wildness.”

Needs Nature Natural Possibility Bones Hills Scent Curves Wildness Shoreline

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

“Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.”

I Can Smell Pace Honey Infidelity Scent Adultery Another Woman

Author:Bette Midler

“As soon as I got into the library I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. I got a whiff of the leather on all the old books, a smell that got real strong if you picked one of them up and stuck your nose real close to it when you turned the pages. Then there was the the smell of the cloth that covered the brand-new books, books that made a splitting sound when you opened them. Then I could sniff the the paper, that soft, powdery, drowsy smell that comes off the page in little puffs when you're reading something or looking at some pictures, kind of hypnotizing smell.”

Source: Bud, not Buddy: with connections

“As the sense of smell is so intimately connected with that of taste, it is not surprising that an excessively bad odour should excite wretching or vomitting in some persons.”

Should Persons Taste Connected Smell Surprising Scent

Book:The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

Source: The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

“Heliotrope. To be sowed in the spring. A delicious flower, but I suspect it must be planted in boxes and kept in the house in the winter. The smell rewards the care.”

Care House Flower Spring Rewards Winter Boxes Smell Suspects Scent Delicious

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“I emitted some civetlike female stink, a distinct perfume of sexual wanting, that he had followed to find me here in the dark.”

Dark Female Smell Scent Perfume Find Me Stink

Author:Janet Fitch

“If Leekes you like, but do their smell dis-like, Eat Onyons, and you shall not smell the Leeke; If you of Onyons would the scent expell, Eat Garlicke, that shall drowne the Onyons' smell.”

Ifs Food Smell Scent

Author:William Kitchiner