Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. 

—Russell Baker

The summer night is like a perfection of thought. 

—Wallace Stevens

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

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.                                                                        —Erma Bombeck

No price is set on the lavish summer; / June may be had by the poorest comer.                 —James Russell Lowell

Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing “Embraceable You” in spats.                                        — Woody Allen

Summer is the time when one sheds one’s tensions with one’s clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all’s right with the world.       —Ada Louise Huxtable

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

—Henry James

In June, as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.                                                           —Aldo Leopold

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