Air Quote by William C. Bryant

“the rich meadow-grass seemed that morning of a freshness and a greenness unsurpassable. Never had they noticed the roses so vivid, the willow-herb so…

— Kenneth Grahame

The strong smells I remember are all floral. There's nothing like a farm rose to take you back to the mountains and the meadows.…

— Amanda Seyfried

We lavender folk spray up, spontaneously flowering in the color we had learned as an identifying mark of our culture when it was subterranean…

— Judy Grahn

The rich, sweet smell of the hayricks rose to his chamber window; the hundred perfumes of the little flower-garden beneath scented the air around;…

— Charles Dickens

“The roses bloomed, thousands of them in a floral amphitheater, blossoms shading from gold and coral at the top of the garden to scarlet…

— Allegra Goodman

It was a perfect spring afternoon, and the air was filled with vague, roving scents, as if the earth exhaled the sweetness of hidden…

— Ellen Glasgow

In a meadow full of flowers, you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry. We have…

— Jonas Mekas

“Even in its ragged state, the garden is astonishingly beautiful. The untended, untouched look of it--- and the ivy-covered walls that protect it on…

— Meg Donohue

“We owned a garden on a hill, We planted rose and daffodil, Flowers that English poets sing, And hoped for glory in the Spring.…

— Vita Sackville-West

“Hybrid-tea Roses for Hot, Humid Climates — Double Delight, Fragrant Cloud, Honor, Lady X, Mister Lincoln, Paradise,”

— Maggie Oster

But the trees were gorgeous in their autumnal leafiness - the warm odours of flowers and herb came sweet upon the sense.

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“Lavender: A flowering herb in the mint family with needlelike leaves and wooly purple blossoms whose soft, woodsy scent bridges the earthly and the…

— Meg Donohue