Day Length Quotes

Right now the day length is exactly the same as in spring when birds key into it and begin singing. The birds are a little confused by it all and the singing isn't very intense. It only lasts a week or so each fall, but it's still cool to hear spring bird songs at this time of the year.

From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,- A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropp'd from the Zenith like a falling star.

The days are long, but the years are short.

Our human calendars take little notice of such dates, but nighthawk migrations tell of shortening days and a season's end.

Oh, how short are the days! How soon the night overtakes us!

The long days are no happier than the short ones.

Each day is a different length of time and that gives a different length to the cusp between light and darkness or darkness and light.

Why would you have a work day that does not respond to shorter or longer day length? There's something that we lose, taking our schedules away from that locally relevant rhythm.

One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.

Shortly after the 2004 Indonesian earthquake, I read that the earthquake had affected the rotation of the earth, shortening the length of our 24-hour day. Even though the change was extremely slight - only a few microseconds - I found the idea incredibly haunting.

Keep schools open from sunset to sundown.