“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson · "Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson", 1870
“Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.” — Ray Bradbury · Dandelion Wine, 1957
“It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to.” — Vincent van Gogh · Letter to Theo van Gogh, 1885
“One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.” — Henry David Thoreau · Journal, January 1852
“In the depth of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” — Albert Camus · Return to Tipasa, 1954
“Then followed that beautiful season called summer, filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Evangeline, 1847
“St. Swithin's day, if thou dost rain, for forty days it will remain; St. Swithin's day, if thou be fair, for forty days 'twill rain no more.” — Traditional English Proverb · July 15 folk saying, documented widely before 1800