Referring to the Arctic, where the summers are short and the winters long, this rueful statement made me think about our own longer summers and how they can fill your reservoirs with light and warmth to carry you through the darker, colder months.

‘No summer is long enough to take away the winter.’ 

Source: Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams (London: Picador, 1987), p. 244

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