Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the blue sky, is by no means waste of time. – John Lubbock, “Recreation,” The Use of Life, 1894

Summer has set in with its usual severity. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by. – Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle