“God is day and night,
winter and summer,
war and peace,
surfeit and hunger.”
~ Heraclitus
“God is day and night,
winter and summer,
war and peace,
surfeit and hunger.”
~ Heraclitus
“Summer ends, and Autumn comes,
and he who would have it otherwise
would have high tide always and
a full moon every night.”
~ Hal Borland
“Tears of joy are like
the summer rain drops
pierced by sunbeams.”
~ Hosea Ballou
“Summer’s lease hath
all too short a date.”
~ William Shakespeare
“We need society, and we need
solitude, also, as we need summer
and winter, day and night,
exercise and rest.”
~ Philip Gilbert Hamerton
“There is a time
in the last few days of Summer
when the ripeness of Autumn
fills the air.”
~ Rudolfo Anaya
“Even without seeing the crickets,
grasshoppers, cicadas, and katydids,
we hear them shrilling in this season
and trust that they’re the tiny
living gargoyles entomologists claim.”
~ Diane Ackerman