Ian Fleming was a British novelist, journalist and wartime naval intelligence officer best known as the creator of James Bond.
Ian Fleming
You Only Live Twice
1964. Penguin, 2002.
It was all right here really. Lovely roses to look at. They smelled good and it was pleasant looking at them and listening to the faraway traffic. Nice hum of bees
At a low point in his life, James Bond, hitherto 'more or less oblivious to...the wonders of nature', sits in Queen Mary's Rose Garden, 'ten minutes away across the park' from his office, and muses. Unsurprisingly, 007's communion with nature doesn't last long.
According to John Pearson's James Bond: The Authorised Biography of 007, Bond first reported to 'British Naval Intelligence HQ, Regent's Park' in August 1939; he was based there until 1965. In You Only Live Twice it is described as a 'tall grey building whose upper storeys showed themselves above the trees.' There are brief mentions in other novels, e.g. 'the triste winter twilight of Regent's Park under snow' (On Her Majesty's Secret Service).