Quote by Karen Solie

“what a rich book might be made about buds and, perhaps, sprouts!”

— Thoreau Henry David

“The thing we are trying to say is in the language of leaves.”

— Linda Gregg

“Antique pages were a scent that should be bottled up and sold to those who adored the aroma.”

— Kerri Maniscalco

“It smelled like a library – the initial whiff of something bitter, followed by the scent lingering in every book there – dusty, sweet,…

— Kimberly Krey

“It is when our budding hopes are nipped beyond recovery by some rough wind, that we are the most disposed to picture ourselves what…

— Charles Dickens

“...the pastel sea of trees and flowers.”

— Anne Rivers Siddons

“…the facts of history all appeared to me like specimens in a herbarium, permanently dried, so that it was easy to forget they had…

— André Gide

“And I wondered when I peeped into one or two on the lower tiers, and saw the tied-up brown paper packets inside, whether the…

— Charles Dickens

“When students write from experience, they can breathe those specifics into their writing- dialect, odd smells, precise names of plants- that can animate even…

— Ralph Fletcher

“This is a word we use to plug holes with. It’s the right size for those warm blanks in speech, for those red heart-…

— Margaret Atwood

“... Bookstore, which smelled the way only a new book from England does when you open it for the first time, faintly like nutmeg,…

— Frederick Beuchner

“When they coughed, they coughed like people accustomed to be forgotten on doorsteps and in draughty passages, waiting for answers to letters in faded…

— Charles Dickens