When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out…

“According to this model, human beings are, at least in one aspect, sensation-receiving machines; and although our receptory apparatus is competent to select and…

— Cruce Stark

It is exactly in the repetition of the exercises that the education of the senses exists; not that the child shall know colors, forms…

— Maria Montessori

A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is…

— Walter Pater

Shut your eyes and you will know what I mean by thought entombed in darkness. Light comes through the senses, and not only through…

— Charles Lindbergh

An odd thing happens when we die, our senses vanish. Taste, touch, smell and sound become a distant memory, but our sight? Ah, our…

— Desperate Housewives

Out in the field I try not to hold expectations. I try to achieve an openness. The senses heighten so that I am totally…

— Keith Lazelle

“It is impossible for us to think of any thing, which we have not antecedently felt, either by our external or internal senses.”

— David Hume

We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.

— Anais Nin

The language of gardening fuels the senses: talk with your hands, observe with your ears and listen with your eyes.

— Costa Georgiadis

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and…

— Henry David Thoreau

Unpleasant questions are being raised about Mother's Day. Is this day necessary? . . . Isn't it bad public policy? . . . No…

— Russell Baker

I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in…

— Walt Whitman

Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the black iron…

— Lewis Mumford

I thought my family was really funny. Everybody in my family was funny. My mom and dad both have great senses of humor and…

— Christine Ebersole

Children need nature for the healthy development of their senses, and therefore, for learning and creativity.

— Richard Louv