鈥淭he American core was shaped by the American summer. As you know, there are some people who complain of it, partly because they have never interested themselves in any aspect of nature and partly because they were born with squinty eyes and mean spirits. But for steady and bright folk there is nothing better than an American summer, such as we find from Canada to the Gulf, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific, not counting the upper fringes of the Pacific Coast, which has a quite different and rather dreadful climate in which you cannot grow watermelons or corn.鈥�
