hinev came to adore the smell of the ripening sher-inn wafting on the breeze as the warm season approached , the smell of the last days of the warm season , when the bite of the coming cold stung the air and stung his nose ; he knew the scents of nature , the individual scents of each animal , of the trees and shrubs and plants ; he knew the land with such intimacy , and the land knew him , as if both of them had been fashioned for each other .