Blackberries Quote by Kate Morton

“John scrambled up and down the terraces and banks, hunting out the secret breaks in the thickets or crawling through hollows woven from sharp-spined…

— Lawrence Norfolk

In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson hue, and…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The Sparrow Sisters' roses still bloomed on New Year's Day, their scent rich and warm even when snow weighted their petals closed. When customers…

— Ellen Herrick

“IT HAD NEVER been such a beautiful May. Every day the sky shone a peerless blue, untouched by cloud. Already, the gardens were crammed…

— Rachel Joyce

“Clearings opened on either side. Familiar smells drifted in the air: fennel, skirrets and alexanders, then wild garlic, radishes and broom. John looked about…

— Lawrence Norfolk

“Sadie scanned the wild tangle of greenery surrounding them. Ferns were striving towards the light, spiraled stems uncoiling into fronds. The sweet scent of…

— Kate Morton

I love to go out in late September among the fat, overripe, icy, black blackberries to eat blackberries for breakfast, the stalks very prickly,…

— Galway Kinnell

“All the bees knew Sugar; they carried their feelings for her with them in their genes, they could sense her from more than half…

— Sarah-Kate Lynch

“She wandered out for a walk. It was the kind of day that pretends spring has come, even though it hasn't. The air smelled…

— Eloisa James

“Why a flower had become that, I had no idea. Something about flowers always made me think about the reproductive system.The scent of a…

— Amalie Silver

“The night smelled like blackberry leaves and the ocean’s nearness, something sweet and deep and full.”

— Deb Caletti

“Lovers with all the glories and all the graces are supposed to be plentiful as blackberries by girls of nineteen, but have been proved…

— Anthony Trollope