Compels Quote by F. Sionil Jose

“There is something fragrant to touch at every turn; scented geranium leaves to rub or pots of thyme to tear at. Such temptations would…

— Nigel Slater

You know those adages about smelling the roses and chasing butterflies? The markets are my butterflies and my roses.

— Bill Gross

When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. I love to wander and muse over them in their…

— Henry David Thoreau

“At times I see them as if I were walking through the streets of Pompeii before the eruption of Vesuvius. This is one of…

— Ernst Jünger

In the darkness, who would answer for the color of a rose, Or the vestments of the May moth and the pilgrimage it goes?

— Nathalia Crane

Flowers are the bright remembrances of youth; they waft us back, with their bland odorous breath, the joyous hours that only young life knows,…

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

“... every flower seems to burn by itself, softly, purely in the misty beds; and how she loved the grey-white moths spinning in and…

— Virginia Woolf

“In the landscape of my native land, a stranger in my own fields, --I had a homeland where the Duero flows between gray cliffs…

— Antonio Machado

There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray you, love, remember. And there is pansies, that's for thoughts.

— William Shakespeare

“Despite the heavy, motionless silence of the hawthorns, these gusts of fragrance came to me like the murmuring of an intense vitality, with which…

— Marcel Proust

“The pleasures of my life here are simple – simple, inexpensive and democratic. A warm hill of Marmande tomatoes on a roadside vendor’s stall.…

— William Boyd

Fly away, pretty moth, to the shade Of the leaf where you slumbered all day; Be content with the moon and the stars, pretty…

— Thomas Haynes Bayly