Summer is Even More Amazing Than They Say

What is This Thing Called Summer?

And summer isn't a time. It's a place as well. Summer is a moving creature and likes to go south for the winter. -Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay

Summer Afternoons:

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

Sun:

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you will not see the shadows" -Helen Keller

Beach:

How pleasant to sit on the beach,
On the beach, on the sand, in the sun,
With ocean galore within reach,
And nothing at all to be done!
-Ogden Nash

Laughter

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. -Victor Borge

Music:

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." -Aldous Huxley

Reading:

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: Quotation and Originality (1876)

School Break:

No more school,
no more books,
no more teacher's dirty looks!

Butterflies:

There is a garden where lilies
And roses are side by side;
And all day between them in silence
The silken butterflies glide.
-Francis Turner Palgrave

Change:

Change is not merely necessary to life — it is life. -Alvin Toffler, in Future Shock‎ (1970), p. 304

Sleep:

All men, whilst they are awake, are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own. -Plutarch