It was that time of the year, the turning-point of summer, when the crops of the present year are a certainty, when one begins to think of the sowing for next year, and the mowing is at hand; when the rye is all in ear, though its ears are still light, not yet full, and it waves in gray-green billows in the wind ...

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "It was that time of the year, the turning-point of summer, when the crops of the present year are a certainty, when one begins to think of the sowing for next year, and the mowing is at hand; when the rye is all in ear, though its ears are still light, not yet full, and it waves in gray-green billows in the wind ..." in the context of "Leo Tolstoy, as translated by Constance Garnett, (1901), Anna Karenina, chapter: Part Three, Chapter 2" to mean that wisdom is timeless.