320 Quotes About Smell

  • Author James Oliver Curwood
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    Of all the odors of a camp, the smell of bacon reaches farthest in the forest. It needs no wind. It drifts on its own wings. On a still night a fox will sniff it a mile away—twice that far if the air is moving in the right direction. It was this smell of bacon that came to Baree where he lay in his hollow on top of the beaver dam.

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  • Author John Hillaby
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    Groddeck, that strange pupil of Freud, claimed that in reality our powers of smell are as sharp as those of a dog, but that we suppress them for psychosexual reasons. Maybe just as well, for if we smelled love and hostility we might become even more emotionally disturbed than we are in the presence if certain people we instinctively like or dislike.

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  • Author Tove Jansson
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    Smell is important. It reminds a person of all the things he's been through; it is a sheath of memories and security.

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  • Author Buzz Aldrin
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    At 10,000 feet, the 3 parachutes would come out, a little lower the pressure of the atmosphere outside was greater than inside, and we could smell the salt air and it was very encouraging to return to earth.

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  • Author Edward Abbey
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    Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger.

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  • Author Emilie Autumn
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    EA: Is it the smoke that smells like vanilla? Audience: Yeah. EA: Yeah, they do that to mask the chemicals that are actually killing you.

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