East Of Eden - J. Steinbeck

"I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the summer-and what trees and seasons smelled like-how people looked and walked and smelled even. The memory of odors is very rich."

I'm just getting into this book, but this seems so true. How many people, places, memories are associated by smell alone? Isn't this our most vivid tool in reminiscent waking life? Is there anything more powerful than smell? The power of sight alone is less potent than the magnitude of smell. I remember so many things by smell alone...