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Quotes About Green

Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseenWithin thy airy shellBy slow Meander's margent green,And in the violet-embroider'd vale.
~ John Milton
I walk unseenOn the dry smooth-shaven green,To behold the wandering moon,Riding near her highest noon,Like one that had been led astrayThrough the heav'n's wide pathless way,And oft, as if her head she bow'd,Stooping through a fleecy cloud.
~ John Milton
The youths all cried out as he disappeared, but a moment later he returned, altered in complexion, changed in figure, and said that a legion of beings clothed in green had seized him and carried him in a circle upwards. 'They showed me strange things of a celestial character and on your cries reaching us they lowered me down to the earth'?
~ Ella Maillart
It was a deep green felt that held one thousand slips of paper, numbered 001 to 999.
~ Ellen Klages
Quinnipeague in August was a lush green place where inchworms dangled from trees whose leaves were so full that the eaten parts were barely missed. Mornings meant 'thick o' fog' that caught on rooftops and dripped, blurring weathered gray shingles while barely muting the deep pink of rosa rugosa or the hydrangea's blue. Wood smoke filled the air on rainy days, pine sap on sunny ones, and wafting through it all was the briny smell of the sea.
~ Barbara Delinsky
I am one of those from the green movement who recognises the low carbon benefits of nuclear generation.
~ Ed Davey
I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment.
~ Gale Norton
The Kitchen, which my wife and I opened with our friend and amazing chef Hugo Matheson, was quickly recognized as the pioneer in 'green' restaurants across the country.
~ Kimbal Musk
There is no 'recycle too much.' That's an oxymoron.
~ Jonathan Krisel
I'm a recycling obsessive.
~ Perdita Weeks
If you're not buying recycled products, you're not really recycling.
~ Ed Begley, Jr.
I'm adamant about recycling in my house, and I'm always making sure to turn off the lights.
~ Matt Lanter
Light is a metaphoric thing. There is green light and red light. Then there is black light, which is mostly danger.
~ Sigmar Polke
They call me garbage queen at home, because I'm extremely particular about reduce, reuse and recycle.
~ Rupali Ganguly
Only that if ever he meets you he will be quite green with jealousy, for you are precisely what he thinks he would like to be – even though you don't study the picturesque in your attire.' He looked thunderstruck for a moment, and ejaculated: 'A Byronic hero – ! Oh, my God! Why, you abominable –
~ Georgette Heyer
If the pirate with a scarf had been more poetically minded he'd have thought that her eyes were like a thousand emeralds, glittering in a far-off pirate treasure chest. But he wasn't, so he just thought that she had really really green eyes, a bit like seaweed.
~ Gideon Defoe
Recycling is an area where jobs could be created at low cost. Green collar workers. That's not very sexy.
~ Geoff Mulgan
By high school, I was already tall - 5-foot-8 - and one day I made the mistake of wearing green tights. The football players all started calling me the Jolly Green Giant.
~ Rene Russo
Hi, I'm Nadine Velazquez, and my green tip is: recycle.
~ Nadine Velazquez
Illinois is becoming more diverse, more tolerant, and even more green.
~ Raja Krishnamoorthi
His eyes were green and cold and brilliant with murder.
~ Sarah Monette
Gideon was there, warm and green and smelling slightly of cloves but not at all of bitterness and death, and I could hear no voices in my head at all.
~ Sarah Monette
I thought of the boy I had been, his murderous, pent-up hatred, of his strange, silent green glass maelstorm of wrath.
~ Sarah Monette
Green as you are cabbage looking
~ Scott Henry