Top 36 Summer Solstice Quotes

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Summer Solstice is the longest day of the year. With that in mind, check out the top 36 Summer Solstice quotes.

#36 – 30. Summer Solstice

36. Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun. – Brian Wilson

35. The spring rains woke the dormant tillers, and bright green shoots sprang from the moist earth and rose like sleepers stretching after a long nap. As spring gave way to summer, the bright green stalks darkened, became tan, turned golden brown. The days grew long and hot. Thick towers of swirling black clouds brought rain, and the brown stems glistened in the perpetual twilight that dwelled beneath the canopy. The wheat rose and the ripening heads bent in the prairie wind, a rippling curtain, an endless, undulating sea that stretched to the horizon. ― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

34. At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare and all lies in stillness beneath blankets of snow. – Gary Zukav

33. The days draw out, the weather gets warmer, and it’s what we call summer, with a bitter laugh when we’ve said it. — Stan Barstow, A Kind of Loving

32. It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside. ― Maud Hart Lovelace

31. Summer had a way of being full of fun and things to do and plenty of times of doing nothing and feeling bored. – Sofi Benitez

30. All green and fair the summer lies. Just budded from the bud of spring, with tender blue of wistful skies, and winds which softly sing. – Susan Coolidge

#29 – 20. Summer Solstice

29. Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires inside a lightbulb. And there exudes a sour extra-human smell that makes the very stone seem flesh-alive, webbed and pulsing. ― Truman Capote, Summer Crossing

28. Summer is routed from her rosy plains. – John H. Booner

27. What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness. – John Steinbeck

26. Summer set lip to earth’s bosom bare, and left the flushed print in a poppy there. ― Francis Thompson

25. And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer. — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

24. Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill. ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

23. One way of celebrating the Solstice is to consider it a sacred time of reflection, release, restoration, and renewal. – Sarah Ban Breathnach

22. In June, as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them. – Aldo Leopold

21. Summer has always been good to me, even the bittersweet end, with the slanted yellow light. – Paul Monette

20. Summer comes, for every spray now springs. – Earl of Surry

#19 – 10. Summer Solstice

19. The days were longer then (for time, like money, is measured by our needs), when summer afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings. ― George Eliot, Middlemarch

18. Summertime is always the best of what might be. — Charles Bowden

17. Eternal summer gilds them yet. But all, except their sun, is set. – Byron

16. The summer with its harvest sheaves. – Annie E. Tynan

15. Early summer days are a jubilee time for birds. In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in the swamp — everywhere love and songs and nests and eggs. ― E.B. White

14. The summer solstice is a time for strength and vitality for action and movement. – Carole Carlton

13. From all the misty morning air, there comes a summer sound. A murmur as of waters from skies, and trees and ground. The birds they sing upon the wing, the pigeons bill, and coo. – B.W. Gilder

12. Both the Winter and the Summer Solstices are expressions of love. They show us the opposition of light and dark, expansion and contraction, that characterize our experiences in the Earth school so that we can recognize our options as we move through our lives. – Gary Zukav

11. Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne. – Barry Cornwall

10. 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 of and becomes the future; the place of caught breath. – Margaret Atwood

#9 – 1. Summer Solstice

9. I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer — its dust and lowering skies. ―Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

8. A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. – James Dent

7. Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly. — Pablo Neruda

6. It is Summer, it is the solstice the crowd is cheering, the crowd is laughing in detail permanently, seriously without thought. – William Carlos Williams

5. Thy eternal summer shall not fade. – Sonnet XVIII

4. Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. — Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

3. The days were longer then for time, like money, is measured by our needs, when summer afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings. – George Eliot

2. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder. – Benjamin Alire Saenz

1. All summer long perpetual melody. – Susan Coolidge

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