"Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink in the wild air..."
-Emerson
"In summer, the song sings itself..." -William Carlos Williams
"Watching the clouds float across the sky is by no means a waste of time..." -John Lubbock
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"Let us dance in the sun wearing wildflowers in our hair..." -Susan Polis Schutz
“Summer 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.” — Regina Brett"Summertime is always the best of what might be..." -Charles Bowden
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"Oh Sunlight. The most precious gold to be found on Earth..." -Roman Payne
"The slow breeze and the summer sun write our memories..."-Debasish Mridha
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"Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. calm as still water..." -George R.R. Martin
We have deer, coming and going, usually staying. All day. Sleeping in the blueberries. Under the rhodos. In the dirt. Chewing. Snoring... Watching..."A pine needle fell in the forest. A deer heard it..." -Edith Pattou
Always watching. Drinking. Slurping...Making jelly beans. The licorice kind..."The two deer ran for the sheer joy of running......flashes of sunlight gleaming on their flanks......invisible and dark shapes moving through the forest..." -Elizabeth Lim
"Follow the stag, a voice whispered, for he is the guardian of the forest...Fleeing danger to well-worn tracks..." -Stewart Stafford
"And the deer...how beautiful they are,as though their bodies did not impede them,Slowly they drift into the open...through bronze panels of sunlight..." -Louise Gluck
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"You are my sun, my moon and all of my stars..." -e.e. cummings
"It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all." -Laura Ingalls Wilder
"It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting..." -Paulo Coelho
"It's only after you've stepped out of your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform."-Roy T. Bennet
"What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?" -George Eliot "Imagination is everything!" Albert Einstein
"Only when it is dark enough that you can see the stars..." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"Life isn't about find yourself. Life is about creating yourself..."-George Bernard Shaw
"To have courage for whatever comes in life...everything lies in that."-St. Teresa
"It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness..."-Charles Spurgeon
"Every sweet moment ha a story behind it..." -Unknown
"Chase the sun and dance in the light..." -Uncommon Quotes
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all..."-Helen KellerPhotographs 2026
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