“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