“A visitor to campus can find sweet, aromatic Properity, as well as Climbing Ophelia and those delicious Egyptian Roses, which give off the scent of cloves on rainy days, ensuring that a gardener's hands will smell sweet for hours after pruning the canes.”

Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman - “A visitor to campus can find sweet...” 1

Similar quotes

“A black cat among roses,phlox, lilac-misted under a quarter moon,the sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock. The garden is very still.It is dazed with moonlight,contented with perfume...”

Amy Lowell
Read more

“Time is an amazing enigma in which seeds that were planted can turn into a vibrant garden if properly pruned.”

Alyssa Milano
Read more

“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”

William Shakespeare
Read more

“Fresh flowers bloomed from vases, sweetly scenting the air. Again, he had no idea. Fine. He'd requested those. That shit smelled good.”

Gena Showalter
Read more

“Loving for beauty is like vowing a lifetime commitment to a rose. No-matter how sweet-scented or pink "petald", every rose withers.”

Moffat Machingura
Read more