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Summer Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Do what we can, summer will have its flies.
- The dearest events are summer-rain.
- Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of…
- We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.
- In these divine pleasures permitted to me of walks in the June night under moon and stars, I can put my life as a fact…
- When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short; but after the heats of July and August, I am…
- Nature is a tropical swamp in sunshine, on whose purlieus we hear the song of summer birds, and see prismatic dewdrops, - but her interiors…
- I please myself with the graces of the winter scenery, and believe that we are as much touched by it as by the genial influences…
- The Indian who was laid under a curse, that the wind should not blow on him, nor water flow to him, nor fire burn him,…
- Solitary converse with nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, and October…
- I do not wonder at a snowflake, a shell, a summer landscape, or the glory of the stars; but at the necessity of beauty under…
- Not the sun or summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight.
More Summer Quotes
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman
- I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in… — Margaret Atwood
- Tears are the summer showers to the soul. — Alfred Austin
- On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam… — Diane Ackerman
- Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. — Russell Baker
- Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams. — Hosea Ballou
- The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and… — Henry Adams
- You know, when you get your first asparagus, or your first acorn squash, or your first really good tomato of the season,… — Mario Batali
- The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. — Henry Ward Beecher
- I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food… — Brendan Behan
- Other men wear white suits in summer and it doesn't seem to bother them. But my white suit seems to be a… — Robert Benchley