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Quotes About Green

Oaks are the true conservatives; They hold old leaves till summer gives A green exchange.
~ Roy Helton
The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruit other than sorrow and joy.
~ Rumi
It wouldn't be much fun living on a planet where grass could not grow.
~ Ruskin Bond
A green so pure that beside it emeralds were dirty and grass dull. The green of Egypt's fields, the fierce green of her crops under the sun, glowing under the eye of Re. Green seemed the most Egyptian of all colors: her Nile, her crocodiles, her papyrus. And Wadjyt, the cobra goddess of Lower Egypt, whose very name means "the green one.
~ Margaret George
It's always annoying to the godly when the ungodly flourish like the green bay tree.
~ Margaret Mitchell
Suppose that climate change is not real and all we do is adopt green technologies, which our economy and our technology is perfectly capable of. Then all we've done is given our kids a cleaner world.
~ John McCain
The main piece of technology in the green economy is a caulk gun.
~ Van Jones
And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen?
~ William Blake
Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.
~ Alice Hoffman
The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco-populism. Ecopopulism. To change our laws and culture, the green movement justice, political solutions and social change.
~ Van Jones
You've got a lot pulling at your time already - which may be the best reason to start cultivating your green thumb.
~ Steven Wilson
What is sublime? / the artist said. / I haven't time / to be well read. / To be sub lime / I'll place, instead, / green citrus fruit / upon my head.
~ Walter Darby Bannard
The shortest unit of time in the multiverse is the New York Second, defined as the period of time between the traffic lights turning green and the cab behind you honking.
~ Terry Pratchett
Absolute green is the most restful color, lacking any undertone of joy, grief, or passion. On exhausted men this restfulness has a beneficial effect, but after a time it becomes tedious.
~ Wassily Kandinsky
The room was one of her favorites, decorated entirely in dark green and white, with white doors and window embrasures, directing one's eye toward the light. The furniture was warm, dark rosewood, upholstered in cream brocade, and there was a bowl of white chrysanthemums on the table.
~ Anne Perry
whispered, and then he gazed, speechless, at the vampire. The vampire was utterly white and smooth, as if he were sculpted from bleached bone, and his face was as seemingly inanimate as a statue, except for two brilliant green eyes that looked down at the boy intently like flames in a skull.
~ Anne Rice
Tonight I walked around the pond scaring frogs; a couple of them jumped off, going, in effect, eek, and most grunted, and the pond was still. But one big frog, bright green like a poster-paint frog, didn't jump, so I waved my arm and stamped to scare it, and it jumped suddenly, and I jumped, and then everything in the pond jumped, and I laughed and laughed.
~ Annie Dillard
If I hear 'Karma Chameleon' one more time, I swear I'm going to find Boy George and make him eat Jesse's record. What does red, gold, and green have to do with anything anyway? (Gloria)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Have lots of plants in your house. Nature and plants understand something about stillness and silence. As you interact with the green world, you will find a peace will enter your life.
~ Frederick Lenz
One more touch of the bow, smell of the virginal Green - one more, and my bosom Feels new life with an ecstasy.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
To be an environmentalist is to care about the environment and care about life on planet Earth.
~ Sharon Gannon
Life is a green madness just now, trying to squeeze the last bit of warmth from the season.
~ Vernor Vinge
Now we notice that Mars doesn't have any atmosphere either and won't support life. In spite of the fact that it turns green and red and purple with the seasons, it doesn't support life.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
Electrify your life! With heating and cooling, cooking and travel, and you will be doing a lot to help the future of this planet. There is no need to burn anything anymore.
~ Mark Ruffalo