Quotations
“Scents are surer than sounds or sights to make your heart-strings crack.”
Rudyard Kipling
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“As you alone can extract widsom from your inner experineces of life, so also it is that you alone must transmute the lesser qualities of your nature into the finest so that the fragrance of your spiritual being may emanate as naturally and spontaneously as the flowers.”
Yogananda
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‘God of his infinite goodnesse and bounty hath by the medium of Plants, bestowed almost all food, clothing and medicine upon man.’
Gerarde’s Herbal (1636)
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‘Flowers that remain unfertilized emit a strong fragrance for as many as eight days or until the flower withers and falls; yet once impregnated the flower ceases to exude its fragrance, usually in less than half an hour.’
Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird “The Secret Life of Plants”
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‘Excellent herbs had our fathers of old,
Excellent herbs to ease their pain,
Alexanders and Marigold,
Eyebright, Orris, and Elecampane.’
Rudyard Kipling
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‘Oil and perfume make the heart glad’.
Proverbs 27:9 Songs of Solomon
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‘Sometimes she embraces the lovely narcissus, and sometimes
The rosy hyacinth, and following no particular path
Wanders from meadow to meadow, from garden to garden,
Collecting up a sweet load of melissa or thyme.’
Pierre de Ronsard
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IN HEAVEN REIGNS THE SUN,
AMONGST NIGHT LIGHTS, THE EVENING sTAR,
AMONGST PRECIOUS STONES, THE DIAMOND
AND IN THE KINGDOM OF PERFUMES, THE ROSE QUEEN REIGNS OVER THE FLOWERS
THROUGH THE FORCE OF HER BEAUTY.
Calderon
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