Petrichor is the earth unearthing itself on a rainy day.

“The heavens opened and there was a thunderstorm. The rain hammered on the windscreen and the wipers became frantic in their efforts to push…

— Peter Grainger

“Nature is an old school, frequented by hippies on weekends.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Nature has a way of turning on one’s inner music. You lose some heaviness, and suddenly become as light as a leaf. And that…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“School rewards with a certificate; nature rewards with enlightenment.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Do you, Damon Chroi, sovereign of the Goblin Kingdom, take this woman, Diana Piper, to be your queen and wife, to have and to…

— Heather Killough-Walden

“I don’t know what to do.” “I think you do.” She goes quiet. “We’re missing this,” she says eventually. “Life. The dinner tonight, I’ll…

— Pierce Brown

“He saw the black water and the declining sun and the swan dipping down, its white wings flashing, and slowing and slowing till silver…

— Jamie O'Neill

Grace is something you can never get but can only be given. There's no way to earn it or deserve it or bring it…

— Frederick Buechner

“Eyes can't sense a smell of rain before it drops. Mind can't see event of future before it happens.”

— Toba Beta

I like one hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain and things that are pink. I hate pimples, baked potatoes, when my mother's mad,…

— Judy Blume

The smell of rain is rich with life.

— Estela Portillo Trambley

“...the most important aspects of someone’s life are the very things not listed in an index.' There were never entries for “memory,” or 'regrets,'…

— Will Ferguson

Love is just something you can't explain, like the look of a rose, the smell of rain, or the feeling of forever.

— Anonymous

“The rain beat against the windows and against the tin roof of the hotel. It came down in hissing roars, then in whispers, then…

— Elliott Chaze

“I start to run, and my nose fills with the smell of rain and wet earth. I run along the shoulder of the highway…

— Jon Harrison