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Quotes About Green

One of my favorite shots was on these, like, lava rocks - but moss was growing on it, and I was lying on it, and it was really green, and the picture was really pretty.
~ Lucky Blue Smith
We want to find a way to be an environmental leader in motor sports, as well as in sports in general.
~ Brian France
Clunk! Something hit the back of his head and he turned quickly, silently, and peered through the gap in the leaves to where Temba crouched in another tree, waiting, his black skin scarcely visible in the deep green shade among the branches. Temba moved his left arm slowly, pointing down to Madu's right.
~ Tim Vicary
Seattle, the mild green queen: wet and willing, cedar-scented, and crowned with slough grass, her toadstool scepter tilted toward Asia, her face turned ever upward in the rain; the sovereign who washes her hands more persistently than the most fastidious proctologist.
~ Tom Robbins
There was a hint of spring in her sole green eyes, something summery in her complexion, and a rich autumn ripeness in her walk.
~ Toni Morrison
Here Stands A Man. Wishful thinking, perhaps, but he could have sworn the sweet bay was pleased to agree. Its olive-green leaves went wild in the glow of a fat cherry-red sun.
~ Toni Morrison
Phyrne leaned on the ship's rail, listening to the sea-gulls announcing that land was near, and waited for the first hint of sunrise. She had put on her lounging robe, of a dramatic oriental pattern of green and gold, an outfit not to be sprung suddenly on invalids or those of nervous tendencies-and she was rather glad that there was no one on deck to be astonished. It was five o'clock in the morning.
~ Kerry Greenwood
No acute attacks of guilt and self-hatred?" "Nope. I've taken Mr. Wu's advice: never mind how hard the times are, he always says, carry a green branch in your heart and a songbird will settle on it." "Wow—where on earth does Mr. Wu get all these hoary old sayings from?"
~ Kerstin Gier
Carl pulled up in a green Honda Civic, a surprisingly ugly car, considering how nondescript it was. It looked like the kind of car that a man who sold calendars door-to-door would drive.
~ Kevin Wilson
Christmas trees are a nice tradition. Green in the midst of winter, light in the midst of darkness—it's all metaphors for God.
~ Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Jeg hadde ikke fått se noe grønt, men du verden for en begivenhetsrik dag.
~ Kjell Askildsen
The sky was a mixture of rose, green, and violet, the enchanting colors of malaria country, and it seemed far, far away.
~ Carlo Levi
In the evenings we sat wondering how the end of the world would come. Perhaps the sun will set yellow but green skirted, and the next morning it will rise in the west emerald green.
~ Carolivia Herron
The king swore and broke his golden walking stick over his knee when he heard this news, especially as it was rumored that the concubine miscarried after eating a surfeit of comfits made with green ginger.
~ Carolly Erickson
Her gaze collided with the duke's. His eyes were a clear, pale green. Why was he staring so intently when there was hardly another woman less interesting than she?
~ Carolyn Jewel
The Mind, that Ocean where each kind Does streight its own resemblance find; Yet it creates, transcending these, Far other Worlds, and other Seas; Annihilating all that's made To a green Thought in a green Shade. Andrew Marvell The Garden
~ George Monbiot
The dream was green, and the green dreams do not lie.
~ George R.R. Martin
The myrtle forests were full of mantises some three inches long, with vivid green wings. They would sway through the myrtle branches on their slender legs, their wickedly barbed front arms held up in an attitude of hypocritical prayer, their little pointed faces with their bulbous straw-coloured eyes turning this way and that, missing nothing, like angular, embittered spinsters at a cocktail party.
~ Gerald Durrell
brilliant pale green of her eyes, the buttercup yellow of her hair.
~ J.R. Ward
Are the angels of her bed the angels who come near me alone in mine? Are the green trees in her window the color is see in ripe plums? If she always sees backward and upside down without knowing it what chance do we have? I am haunted by the feeling that she is saying melting lords of death, avalanches, rivers and moments of passing through, And I am replying, Yes, yes. Shoes and pudding.
~ Jack Gilbert
If all the world were green, there would be no such thing as the color green. Similarly, men cannot know what it is to be together without otherwise knowing what it is to be apart. If all the world were love, then, how could love exist? This is why we turn away from each other on moments of great happiness and closeness. How can we know happiness and closeness without contrasting them, like lights?
~ Jack Kerouac
I took the name Green Destiny from - well there is such a sword called Green Destiny. It is green because you keep twisting it, it's an ancient skill, you keep twisting it and knocking it and twisting it until it is very elastic and light.
~ Ang Lee
'Jaws' was the ultimate man vs. nature movie, and it was a movie that was basically three people against the elements, so that was the biggest influence on 'Frozen.'
~ Adam Green
It's unacceptable to tour using non-environmentally friendly fuel when there are alternatives.
~ KT Tunstall