“Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” — Henry James
“In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.” — John Steinbeck · Travels with Charley, 1962
“Then came the June stillness, the heavy heat, the throbbing silence of the summer afternoon.” — L. M. Montgomery
“No price is set on the lavish summer; June may be had by the poorest comer.” — James Russell Lowell · The Vision of Sir Launfal, 1848