We are Born into this World as Sensate Creatures

Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of the Senses,
quotes Daphne and Charles Maurer's The World of the Newborn

His world smells to him much as our world smells to us, but he does not perceive odors as coming through his nose alone. He hears odors, and sees odors, and feels them too. His world is a melée of pungent aromas—and pungent sounds, and bitter-smelling sounds, and sweet-smelling sights, and sour-smelling pressures against the skin. If we could visit the newborn’s world, we would think ourselves inside a hallucinogenic perfumery. (289)