1John Steinbeck
Danielle CarsonIn early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.
2Harper Lee
Danielle CarsonSummer 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…
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3Bon Jovi
Danielle CarsonIt's like a beach blanket and a bottle of wine, it feels something like summertime.
4Unknown
Danielle CarsonMy sense of direction leads me one way: to the beach
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5'The Great Gatsby'
Danielle CarsonAnd 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. There is an almost religious 'rebirth' that comes with the end of winter.
6Patricia Briggs
Danielle CarsonA man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.
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7William Shakespeare
Danielle CarsonShall I compare thee to a summer's day?
8Susan Polis Schutz
Danielle CarsonLet us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair and let us huddle together as darkness takes over. We are at home amidst the birds and the trees, for we are children of nature.
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9'The Office'
Danielle CarsonI just want to lie on the beach and eat hot dogs. That's all I've ever wanted.
10Henry David Thoreau
Danielle CarsonOne must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.
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11James Dent
Danielle CarsonA perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.
12Emilia Wickstead
Danielle CarsonTo escape and sit quietly on the beach — that's my idea of paradise.
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13Sandra Boynton
Danielle Carson 14John Lebbock
Danielle CarsonRest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
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15Maud Hart Lovelace
Danielle CarsonIt was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.
16Roxane Gay
Danielle CarsonLong walks on the beach are the supposed holy grail of a romantic evening. The beach becomes a kind of utopia - the place where all our dreams come true.
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17Bryan Procter
Danielle CarsonOh, the summer night, has a smile of light, and she sits on a sapphire throne.
18Regina Brett
Danielle CarsonSummer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.
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19Katie Lee
Danielle CarsonIf summer had one defining scent, it'd definitely be the smell of barbecue.
20Shanti
Danielle CarsonAnd at the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy, and your eyes sparkling.

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