do-si-doed our partners and sweated to fiddle music at the town hall; and of bass fishing on Bog Stream, where we canoed past floating lily pads and big white water lily blossoms. I think of the school year coming to a close.
For me, summer used to begin on the first day of school vacation, the season of long days." - Meaning and context.">
(2009), Summer World: A Season of Bounty, page: 2, publisher: Harper Collins, ISBN: 9780060742171 (253 pages; illustrated by Bernd Heinrich)
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In my nostalgia for summers past and anticipation of summers to come, I think of swimming, basking in the sun while wiggling into warm sand at the beach, and reveling in the sights, sounds, and smells of flowers, bees, and birds. I think of the dances on balmy nights as we swung and do-si-doed our partners and sweated to fiddle music at the town hall; and of bass fishing on Bog Stream, where we canoed past floating lily pads and big white water lily blossoms. I think of the school year coming to a close.
For me, summer used to begin on the first day of school vacation, the season of long days.

— Bernd Heinrich

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "In my nostalgia for summers past and anticipation of summers to come, I think of swimming, basking in the sun while wiggling into warm sand at the beach, and reveling in the sights, sounds, and smells of flowers, bees, and birds. I think of the dances on balmy nights as we swung and do-si-doed our partners and sweated to fiddle music at the town hall; and of bass fishing on Bog Stream, where we canoed past floating lily pads and big white water lily blossoms. I think of the school year coming to a close.
For me, summer used to begin on the first day of school vacation, the season of long days." in the context of "(2009), Summer World: A Season of Bounty, page: 2, publisher: Harper Collins, ISBN: 9780060742171 (253 pages; illustrated by Bernd Heinrich)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Bernd Heinrich

About Bernd Heinrich

Bernd Heinrich, Ph.D (born 19 April 1940) is a professor in the zoology department at the University of Vermont. He has authored books about nature writing, zoology, ecology, and evolution. His father was the ichneumon expert Gerd Heinrich (1896–1984).