“To smell to a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body; no less are thoughts of mortality cordial to the soul.”

“What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!”

John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author

“In the past, I had particularly loved her smell. She always smelled freshed, freshly washed or of freshed laundry or fresh sweat or freshly loved”

Bernhard Schlink book The Reader

“In Western thought, the body holds the soul; in Indian thought, the soul holds the body.”

Ram Swarup (1920–1998) Indian historian

“If one choose the goods of the soul, he chooses the diviner [portion]; if the goods of the body, the merely mortal.”

Democritus Ancient Greek philosopher, pupil of Leucippus, founder of the atomic theory

“The fresh smell of coffee soon wafted through the apartment, the smell that separates night from day.”

Haruki Murakami book Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

“Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other
Who think the same thoughts without need of speech”

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author

“Having left us with thought (not a soul), and extension (not a body), [Descartes] does not know how to account for the union of soul and body.”

Étienne Gilson (1884–1978) French historian and philosopher

“The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

“So the freshness lives on
in a lemon,
in the sweet-smelling house of the rind,
the proportions, arcane and acerb.”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet