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“Rest 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.” — John Lubbock
“Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the tree house; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape…” — Harper Lee
“I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.” — L.M. Montgomery
“Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink in the wild air.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I love summertime more than anything else in the world. That is the only thing that gets me through the winter, knowing that summer is going to be there.” — Jack McBrayer
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadows.” — Helen Keller
“There are enough evidences of supreme skill in the structure of the human hand alone to prove the existence, intelligence and benevolence of God in the face of all the sophistry of infidelity.” — A. B. Simpson
“What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!” — Jeremy Taylor
“God dwells in His creation and is everywhere indivisibly present in all His works. He is transcendent above all His works even while He is immanent within them.” — A. W. Tozer
“The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.” — Henry Ward Beecher