Book Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects. The swallow over my window should interweave that thread or straw…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“She knew even before she opened her eyes that she was home—or not home, but in her woods at least. She knew they were…

— Joe Hill

“I remember the smell of the pines and the sleeping on the mattresses of beech leaves in the woodcutters' huts and the skiing through…

— Ernest Hemingway

“The bookstore itself was cozy but not crowded, with posters of classic novels framed and hung on the walls. And it was filled with…

— Shaun David Hutchinson

“She lifted the book to her nose. A book had a smell more soothing than any of Mrs. Hawkins's herbs. There was nothing like…

— Cindy Thomson

“The first way Maya approaches a book is to smell it.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of…

— Ray Bradbury

I am very grateful to the electronic world for making my life easier, but there is something about holding a book - the smell…

— Anne Fadiman

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of…

— George Gissing

In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All things with which we deal preach to us. What is a farm but a mute gospel? The chaff and the wheat, weeds and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I love all trees, but I am in love with pines.

— Aldo Leopold