"THERE SHALL BE ETERNAL SUMMER IN THE GRATEFUL HEART." -celia thaxter

only 5 days 'til the summer season starts around here...

"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

rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.
-john lubbock

"the summer night is like a perfection of thought."
-wallace stevens

"in summer, the song sings itself."
-william carlos williams

deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.
-sam keen

a life without love is like a year without summer.
-swedish proverb

summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the english language.
-henry james