Monday, September 22, 2008

Quotes: July. June.

The number after the topic is the page on which the quote was found.

July
July 180 "July afternoons can roar and rumble with thunderstorms that slash the sky, shake the hills, and drench the valleys." Borland, Twelve Moons of the Year

July 180 "July nights can be as cool as May, as sultry as late August, and they are lit with more fireflies than stars." Borland, Twelve Moons of the Year

July 184 July flowers: "…hot-sun yellows." Borland, Twelve Moons of the Year

July 191 "If time ever stands still…it is on a mid-July day along a rural road with a leisurely stream on one side and fields and a wooded hillside on the other…early afternoon and the air is warm and quiet, even among the top leaves of the roadside trees…sky is clean and clear except for a few huge white cumulus clouds that make cool shade patterns as they slowly drift across the sun." Borland, Twelve Moons of the Year

July 193 July: "The rhythms endure, and the days pass…." Borland, Twelve Moons of the Year

July 194 July: "Looking, listening, sensing, we know that this is summer’s song; but we also know that no summer’s song lasts forever." Borland, Twelve Moons of the Year

July 195 July: "Garden tomatoes fatten, still grass green, toward August ripeness." Borland, Twelve Moons of the Year

July 195 July: "The insects drone, afternoon and night…." Borland, Twelve Moons of the Year

July 196 July: "The bright butterfly’s wings hover among the roadside weeds." Borland, Twelve Moons of the Year

July 201 "…the crickets possess late July, chirping and trilling the warm hours away as though summer endured forever." Borland, Twelve Moons of the Year

June
June 147 "June, and deliberate growth, the long, slow days that reach toward ripeness and maturity." Borland, Twelve Moons of the Year

June 150 "The world is new and young in the June dawn, fresh and sweet and almost innocent." Borland, Twelve Moons of the Year

June 150 June: "The mists of night still lie in the valleys like the very mists of creation." Borland, Twelve Moons of the Year

June 153 June: "…air fragrant with the smell of cut grass…." Borland, Twelve Moons of the Year

June 153 "June invites tranquility…." Borland, Twelve Moons of the Year

June 153 "June is a month to live with, to relax, to appreciate life." Borland, Twelve Moons of the Year

June 153 "[June] is the long, sweet days we bought and paid for with long, cold nights and short, bitter days at the dark turn of the year." Borland, Twelve Moons of the Year

June 154 June: "…age-old perfume of new hay curing in the sun…." Borland, Twelve Moons of the Year

June 155 "[June] is dew and buttercups, high noon and clover, lingering dusk and fence-row daisies." Borland, Twelve Moons of the Year

June 156 "But…a June day begins with a sense of peace and leisure." Borland, Twelve Moons of the Year

June 156 "…that sense of unending time, of long-day June." Borland, Twelve Moons of the Year

June 165 "There is no other smell in the world quite like fresh-cut hay seasoning in the June sun." Borland, Twelve Moons of the Year

June 165 "Knee-deep in June, which means roses both in the garden and along the fence rows." Borland, Twelve Moons of the Year

June 167 "[In June] …we would linger and have the sun, and time itself, stand still." Borland, Twelve Moons of the Year

June 167 June: "Bee-drone days and firefly nights will pass." Borland, Twelve Moons of the Year

June 168 June: "Fireflies sparkle the evening." Borland, Twelve Moons of the Year

June 171 June: Then darkness comes and the warm summer night is filled with winking lights of mystery. Borland, Twelve Moons of the Year

June 171 June. "…fireflies make a special magic of the warm summer night…like a host of winking stars come down to spangle the night and create that incredible ballet of soft light." Borland, Twelve Moons of the Year

June 171 June: "These are firefly nights…." Borland, Twelve Moons of the Year

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