“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
“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