“There is a day in summer when the long nights begin, and they begin because the sun has swung as far north as it will go.” — Rachel Carson · The Edge of the Sea
“You know how paradise is supposed to be a place on Earth in the summer time.” — Diane Arbus · Photographic essay and interviews
“All of a sudden summer was there. It felt inevitable, like something you were waiting for.” — Ann Packer · The Dive from Clausen's Pier
“Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes.” — Ada Louise Huxtable · Various essays on design and living
“The smell of the grass, the taste of the rain, the feeling that anything was possible.” — Margaret Mitchell · Gone with the Wind
“In the summer I lie loosely in the grass and listen to the silence that moves.” — Eudora Welty · The Eye of the Story
“Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is stirring in the greenness underneath.” — William Carlos Williams · Spring and All