“Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious.”

“Visual delight, sentiment, and exploration become one in the new appreciation of landscape and Nature.”

“Adam Smith and Malthus and Ricardo! There is something about these three figures to evoke more than ordinary sentiments from us their children in the spirit.”

“The continent had to be discovered emotionally. It had to become a homeland and feel like home. The sense of overpowering space, the isolation, the warmth of summer, the garish light, the shiny-leafed trees, the birds and insects, the smell of air filled with dust, the strange silences, and the landscapes in all their oddness had to become familiar.”

“Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.”

“What surprises you in life? The marvel of consciousness -- that sudden window swinging open on a sunlit landscape amidst the night of non-being.”

“I smelled her before I saw her. Even so, the first sight was shocking.”

“Landscape, at its best, is not a narrow category. It is a source of surprise. It allows for the sudden assertion of a place, like an unexpected time signature within a melody.”

“Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted.”

“[he] was handsome. Just the sight of him stirred strange longings in me”