“Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.”
Ray Bradbury · Dandelion Wine, 1957
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“It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to.”
Vincent van Gogh · Letter to Theo van Gogh, 1885
“One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.”
Henry David Thoreau · Journal, January 1852
“In the depth of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
Albert Camus · Return to Tipasa, 1954
“Then followed that beautiful season called summer, filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Evangeline, 1847
“St. Swithin's day, if thou dost rain, for forty days it will remain; St. Swithin's day, if thou be fair, for forty days 'twill rain no more.”
Traditional English Proverb · July 15 folk saying, documented widely before 1800
“I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.”
L.M. Montgomery · Anne of Green Gables, 1908
“A kind word is like a spring day.”
Russian Proverb
“Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
Henry James · As quoted by Edith Wharton in A Backward Glance, 1934
“In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.”
John Steinbeck · Travels with Charley, 1962
“Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.”
Sam Keen
“One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by.”
Jeannette Walls · The Glass Castle, 2005
