Summer, then, is something earthy, in no sense celestial, and the occasion we call the summer solstice is one of those astronomical incidents that have no effect whatever on the growth of a corn crop or a carrot in the kitchen garden....So a passing wave to the summer solstice while we go about our summer business, as we have been doing almost a month now. Hal Borland
I suspect that summer weather may be always ushered in in a similar manner -- thundershower, rainbow, smooth water and warm night. A rainbow on the brow of summer. Henry David Thoreau
Summer gathered in the weather, the wind had the proper touch, the breathing of the world was long and warm and slow. Ray Bradbury
We have no more serious business today than watching the clouds drift by. Edwin Way Teale
Summer is a new song everyone is humming. Diane Ackerman, Cultivating Delight
Toward the end of any summer day you may see these bad boys of the heavens sulking and brooding in the purple distance along the horizon. Those that were big enough to withstand the cloud-melting effect of sundown will continue into the dark like quarrelsome children who won't got to bed, disturbing the summer night with so-called heat lightning. Eric Sloane
The Summer Solstice: Summer has begun by the almanac, but the light is already leaning toward Fall. Hal Borland
Occasionally there is a summer when spring never quite ends. Rather than hot, dry days broken by sporadic afternoon
rain, the parching sun stays out in the Atlantic. Week after week, winds roll from the southeast to the northwest and back again. It rains with the rolls, and the winds hide the heat. Instead of rotting, squash grow bigger and more than anyone can ever remember. The stifling heat that makes the rot, encourages the borers, never comes. Ricky Rood, My Father's Tomatoes
Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. Russell Baker
There is a stillness about the meadows in the hot days of summer, as though the year were poised motionless at the top of a long slope up which it has climbed and from which it must later descend -- but not yet, thank goodness. Richard Adams
We have a midsummer but no midspring. We have a midwinter but no midautumn. Spring and fall are the seasons of the most obvious action and change. They are flowing this way and that continually. They have no stagnant or slack-water times. But there comes a period in summer -- and in winter too -- when day follows day with little variation. Edwin Way Teale
In summer we live out of doors, and have only impulses and feelings, which are all for action,... Henry David Thoreau
It was a beautiful midsummer night, soft, sultry and velvety black with an occasional flare of heat lightning on the horizon but not a breath of air stirring. William Byron Mowery
How long, if I sit still, will it take the maw of summer to devour me? Eric Pinder
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
What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. Jane Austen
It is perfect weather. Just enough breeze to stir and keep things from grilling. It was a mellow, high-keyed night with no clouds, only a few white streaks sideways. Emily Carr
Summer has set in with its usual severity. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
That beautiful season the Summer! Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
My mother, who hates thunderstorms,
Holds up each summer day and shakes
It out suspiciously, lest swarms
Of grape-dark clouds are lurking there.... Philip Larkin
Summer means promises fulfilled, objectives gained, hopes realized. The surge of doing and achieving, of watching and enjoying is finally replaced by a sense of quiet and floating and a certain fullness and repletion, as though one cannot absorb any more. Sigurd F. Olsen
This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight, like a spy, through the ripening country-side, and, with feigned sympathy for those who droop with August heat, puts her cool cloak of bracing air about leaf and flower. Sarah Orne Jewett
Today the summer has come at my window with its signs and murmurs...Now it is time to sit quiet face to face with Thee, and to sing dedication of life in this silent and overflowing leisure. Rabindranath Tagore
It's a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do. Walter Winchell
The summer night is like a perfection of thought. Wallace Stevens
On a brutally hot and humid summer day, one on which the sun feels as if it has been dipped in lye, the air so thick it's drinkable, and your body feels like freshly melted lead, all I have to do is get into a swimming pool and stand up to my neck in cold water, ice down the brain stem to feel rejuvenated. Diane Ackerman
Summer afternoon – summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. Henry James
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