California Quote by Jack Kerouac

I have a love affair with tomatoes and corn. I remember them from my childhood. I only had them in the summer. They were…

— Alice Waters

But the trees were gorgeous in their autumnal leafiness - the warm odours of flowers and herb came sweet upon the sense.

— Elizabeth Gaskell

How sociable the garden was. We ate and talked in given light. The children put their toys to grass All the warm wakeful August…

— Thom Gunn

I ate breakfast in the kitchen by candle-light, and then drove the five miles to the station through the most glorious October colouring. The…

— Jean Webster

It was hard to remember what the yard had looked like even twelve hours before, undisturbed and pristine. Like it takes so little to…

— Sarah Dessen

When my mother was raising me, she moved us upstate to the Woodstock area. Our closest neighbor was a mile away. She planted all…

— Debi Mazar

Ive seen Fried Green Tomatoes too many times. I love life stories told in flashback.

— Liam James

It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.

— Maud Hart Lovelace

It was a morning in early summer. A silver haze shimmered and trembled over the lime trees. The air was laden with their fragrance.…

— Bernard Berenson

O Love! what hours were thine and mine, In lands of palm and southern pine; In lands of palm, of orange-blossom, Of olive, aloe,…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

“In Summer there were white and damask roses, and the smell of thyme and musk. In Spring there were green gooseberries and throstles [thrush],…

— Beatrix Potter

“Summer rain smelled like newly clipped grass, like mouths stained red with berry juice - blueberries, raspberries, blackberries. It smelled like late nights spent…

— Leslye Walton