August Quote by Emily Dickinson

“There is a Zone whose even Years No Solstice interrupt - Whose Sun constructs perpetual Noon Whose perfect Seasons wait -”

— Emily Dickinson

This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year’s threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go…

— Margaret Atwood

It is still summer, but the summer is no longer alive. It has come to a standstill; nothing withers, and fall is not ready…

— Tove Jansson

Who knows what beautiful and winged life, whose egg has been buried for ages under many concretic layers of woodenness in the dead dry…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Winter Solstice is a gentle teaching. As it shows us that after the longest night, the light always returns, within the earth and within…

— Anonymous

If eternity had a season, it would be midsummer. Autumn, winter, spring are all change and passage, but at the height of summer the…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Summer lasts not for ever; seasons succeed each other.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

When truth is evident, it is impossible for parties and factions to rise. There never has been a dispute as to whether there is…

— Voltaire

Summer specializes in time, slows it down almost to dream.

— Jennifer Grotz

February, when the days of winter seem endless and no amount of wistful recollecting can bring back any air of summer.

— Shirley Jackson

Nature knows no calendar, the seasons move in a circle.

— Flora Thompson

Each solstice is a domain of experience unto itself. At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle…

— Gary Zukav