“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
– John Steinbeck

“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.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

“Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.”
– Pablo Neruda

“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

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