It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips.
Violette Leduc

It’s not that bad. I’m not saying I’d like to build a summer home here, but the trees are actually quite lovely.

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
Russel Baker

In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.
James Dent

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.
Bern Williams

All we need is the truth in our hand. Someone to call a friend. Never fear the darkness. All we need is just the sun in the sky. And the hope of a summer to come with the meaning of love.

Summer set lip to earth’s bosom bare,
And left the flushed print in a poppy there.
Francis Thompson

How sweet I roamed from field to field, and tasted all the summer’s pride.
Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.

It’s designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything is new again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains comes, it stops, and leaves you to face the fall alone.

What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.
Gertrude Jekyll

I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.

It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.

Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language

In June, as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.
Aldo Leopold

Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear Heart, Good night, good night.

Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

Ah, summer – what power you have to make us suffer and like it

A summer’s sun is worth the having.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
Albert Camus

Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you’re signed up for a season, see it through. You don’t have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.
Celia Thaxter

Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter’s pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Wallace Stevens

He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass

In summer, the song sings itself.
William Carlos Williams

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.
Sam Keen

Summer has set in with its usual severity.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
Anton Chekhov

A life without love is like a year without summer.
Swedish Proverb

Press close, bare-bosomed Night! Press close, magnetic,
nourishing Night!
Night of south winds! Night of the large, few stars!
Still, nodding Night! Mad, naked, Summer Night!
Walt Whitman

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.
Erma Bombeck

The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.

Do what we can, summer will have its flies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Heat, ma’am! it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.
Sydney Smith

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.
John Lubbock

No price is set on the lavish summer;
June may be had by the poorest comer.
James Russell Lowell

Summer afternoon – summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Henry James

Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer’s year – it brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul.

People take pictures of the Summer, Just in case someone thought they had missed it, And to proved that it really existed

But thy eternal summer shall not fade.