Welcome to summer!

Posted: June 1, 2026

Here are some lovely quotes about summer. We think Wm Shakespeare’s got it about right!

“I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.” – L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.” – John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“Summer afternoon – summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” – Henry James

“I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.” – Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

“Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the tree house; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill.” – Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August.” – Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.” – John Lubbock, The Use of Life

“One summer morning at sunrise a long time ago
I met a little girl with a book under her arm.
I asked her why she was out so early and
she answered that there were too many books and
far too little time. And there she was absolutely right.” – Tove Jansson

“Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.” – William Shakespeare, The Sonnets