June: The Beginning of Summer and a Time for New Growth
For many people, June is the most pleasurable month of the year. It signals the start of summer and brings sunny days, trips to the mountains, fun at the beach, and a host of other warm-weather activities. June is named after Juno, the ancient Roman goddess associated with spring, new growth, and women’s wellbeing. Juno was also the deity linked with marriage, so June is considered an auspicious month to tie the knot. Below is a collection of wise, perceptive, and sometimes humorous quotes about June for posting on your dry-erase painted wall. Let them provide you with a bit of inspiration while operating in your home office, classroom, business office, or other area, and offer you ideas for school writing assignments and the like.
The Positive Effects of Inspirational Dry-Erase Wall Quotes
Research has shown that such inspirational quotes have a positive impact on our emotions and attitudes. Since humans are generally optimistic by nature, we look for inspiration in the lives and ideas of positive role models, so uplifting quotes affect us on a basic psychological level. This is one reason that famous quotations and aphorisms are passed down from one generation to the next. Accordingly, to help preserve an upbeat attitude and provide yourself with a daily dose of motivation, you can regularly post these quotes on your dry-erase wall to inspire you in your work activities or help your homeschooled children learn better during the month of June. In this way, you might gain some positive food for thought, as well as a bit of humor and guidance to help you tackle daily tasks more successfully.
Upbeat Thoughts and Feelings about June to add to your Dry-Erase Wall.
1. “Far up in the deep blue sky, Great white clouds are floating by;/All the world is dressed in green;/Many happy birds are seen,/Roses bright and sunshine clear/Show that lovely June is here.”
– F. G. Sanders (Canadian poet)
2. “June is the time for being in the world in new ways, for throwing off the cold and dark spots of life.”
– Joan D. Chittister (US nun, theologian, author, and speaker)
3. June Mine is the Month of Roses; yes, and mine The Month of Marriages! All pleasant sights And scents, the fragrance of the blossoming vine, The foliage of the valleys and the heights. Mine are the longest days, the loveliest nights; The mower’s scythe makes music to my ear; I am the mother of all dear delights; I am the fairest daughter of the year.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (US poet and educator)
4. “And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.”
– James Russell Lowell (US romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat)
5. If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.
– Bernard Williams (English moral philosopher)
6. What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.
– Gertrude Jekyll (British horticulturist, garden designer, craftswoman, photographer, writer, and artist)
7. “Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.”
– Hal Borland (US author, journalist, and naturalist)
8. “Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.
– Al Bernstein (US sportscaster, writer, stage performer, recording artist, and speaker)
9. “June is the gateway to summer.”
– Jean Hersey (US writer on nature and gardening)
10. “No price is set on the lavish summer; June may be had by the poorest comer.”
– James Russell Lowell (US romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat)
11. “To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June.”
– Jean Paul Sartre (French philosopher, novelist, screenwriter, playwright, biographer, and literary critic)
12. “And since all this loveliness cannot be Heaven, I know in my heart it is June.”
– Abba Woolson (19th-century US writer)
13. “I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.”
– L. M. Montgomery (Canadian author)
14. “The castle grounds were gleaming in the sunlight as though freshly painted; the cloudless sky smiled at itself in the smoothly sparkling lake, the satin-green lawns rippled occasionally in a gentle breeze: June had arrived.”
– J.K. Rowling (British author, philanthropist, film producer, television producer, and screenwriter)
15. “June has never looked more beautiful than she does now, unadorned and honest, vulnerable yet invincible.”
– Marie Lu (US young adult author)
Dry-Erase Wall Quotes about Gardening and Nature in June
16. “In early June, the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.”
– John Steinbeck (renowned US author), The Winter of Our Discontent
17. “It is dry, hazy June weather. We are more of the earth, farther from heaven these days.”
– Henry David Thoreau (renowned US naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher)
18. “In June, as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.”
– Aldo Leopold (US author, philosopher, naturalist, scientist, ecologist, forester, conservationist, and environmentalist)
19. “June had drawn out every leaf on the trees.”
– Virginia Woolf (20th century English writer)
20. “June falls asleep upon her bier of flowers.”
– Lucy Larcom (US teacher, poet, and author)
21. “All June I bound the rose in sheaves. Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves.”
– Robert Browning (English poet and playwright)
22. “Do not the bright June roses blow to meet thy kiss at morning hours?”
– William Cullen Bryant (US romantic poet, journalist, and newspaper editor)
23. “It is the month of June, the month of leaves and roses, when pleasant sights salute the eyes and pleasant scents the noses.”
– Nathaniel Parker Willis (US author, poet, and editor)
24. “On this June day, the buds in my garden are almost as enchanting as the open flowers. Things in bud bring, in the heat of a June noontide, the recollection of the loveliest days of the year, those days of May when all is suggested, nothing yet fulfilled.”
– Francis King (British novelist and short story writer)
25. “At midnight, in the month of June, I stand beneath the mystic moon.”
– Edgar Allan Poe (US writer, poet, editor, and literary critic)
26. “I know well that the June rains just fall.”
– Uejima Onitsura (Japanese haiku poet)
Additional Dry-Erase PaintednWall Quotes about June
27. “Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough rainy days, we may just finish it by Labor Day, but if not, there’s no harm, no penalty. We may have better things to do.”
– Nancy Gibbs (US essayist, speaker, and presidential historian)
28. “Green was the silence, wet was the light; the month of June trembled like a butterfly.”
– Pablo Neruda (Chilean poet-diplomat and politician)
29. “In my college years, I would retreat to our summer house for two weeks in June to read a novel a day. How exciting it was, after pouring my coffee and making myself comfortable on the porch, to open the next book on the roster, read the first sentences, and find myself on the platform of a train station.”
– Amor Towles (US novelist)
30. How did it get so late so soon? It’s night before it’s afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness, how the time has flown! How did it get
so late so soon?
– Dr. Seuss (US children’s author, cartoonist, illustrator, poet, animator, and filmmaker)
31. “A cold in the head in June is an immoral thing.”
– L.M. Montgomery (Canadian author)
32. “It is June. I am tired of being brave.”
– Anne Sexton (US author)
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