1. “A little bit of summer is what the whole year is all about.”
2. “We might think we are nurturing our garden, but of course it’s our garden that is really nurturing us.”
3. “When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.”
4. “Oh, the summer night, has a smile of light, and she sits on a sapphire throne.”
5. “What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
6. “I am more myself in a garden than anywhere else on earth.”
7. “In summer, the song sings itself.”
8. “The summer night is like a perfection of thought.”
9. “Friends, sun, sand, and sea, that sounds like a summer to me.”
10. “One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by.”
11. “I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.”
12. “Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
13. “In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explode, and every sunset is different.”
14. “And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
15. “August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.”
16. “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
17. “I could never in a hundred summers get tired of this.”
18. “Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside me.”
19. “One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.”
20. “Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.”
21. “Summertime is always the best of what might be.”
22. “Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.”
23. “When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person.”
24. “It’s a smile, it’s a kiss, it’s a sip of wine … it’s summertime!”
25. “It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.”