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Quotes About Green

Green exercise improves psychological health.
~ Richard Louv
I always try to say, 'If you want to help the environment, try to do just two things. One, use less of your car. Second, separate your garbage.'
~ Jaime Lerner
Green sods are all their monument; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids.
~ James Gates Percival
It's good to touch the green, green grass of home
~ Tom Jones
The holly green, the ivy green The prettiest picture you've ever seen Is Christmas in Killarney With all of the folks at home.
~ John Redmond
The roof of my house is covered in solar panels. When Im home, Im a pretty green fellow.
~ Bill McKibben
They say there are only two kinds of people on St. Patrick's Day: the Irish, and the people that drive them home.
~ Conan O'Brien
I started designing the greenest the most connected home before the iPhone and the iPad.
~ Tony Fadell
I'm not pessimistic about Africa. The cities just seem big and hopeless. But there's still a great green heart where there's possibility. There's hope in the wilderness.
~ Paul Theroux
Mentre che la speranza ha fior del verde
~ Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio
'Doc, I can't stop singing the green green grass of home. 'That sounds like Tom Jones syndrome'. 'Is it common?' 'It's not unusual.'
~ Tommy Cooper
Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.
~ Quentin Crisp
Everyone wants the sun let shine, and the neighbor's grass is always greener, so it is better to mow it ourselves.
~ Jan Jansen Easy Branches
I wake to a simple longing, all I want of this ordinary hour, this ordinary earth that was long ago married to time: to hear as a sand crab hears the waves, loud as a second heart; to see as a green thing sees the sun, with the undividing attention of blind love. — Jane Hirshfield, from "Rain in May," Of Gravity & Angels . (Wesleyan; 1 edition February 15, 1988)
~ Jane Hirshfield
The Santa Anas blew in hot from the desert, shriveling the last of the spring grass into whiskers of pale straw. Only the oleanders thrived, their delicate poisonous blooms, their dagger green leaves.
~ Janet Finch
Luke unfastened a bottle from his pack and bent over a sow's belly, squeezing green milk from her swollen udder. He looked up from his work, a green streak on his upper lip. Rey kept watching, though that last moment had left her a little ill. The sow regarded her lazily.
~ Jason Fry
hate blows a bubble of despair into hugeness world system universe and bang -fear buries a tomorrow under woe and up comes yesterday most green and young
~ E.E. Cummings
All in green went my love of riding on a great horse of gold into the silver dawn.
~ E.E. Cummings
up into the the silence the green silence with a white earth in it you will (kiss me)go out into the morning the young morning with a warm world in it (kiss me)you will go on into the sunlight the fine sunlight with a firm day in it you will go(kiss me down into your memory and a memory and memory i) kiss me,(will go)
~ E.E. Cummings
one day Warren was admitted for his counseling and the Master threw a cup of cold green tea in his face and that was the lesson of the day.
~ E.L. Doctorow
I made myself a glass of chocolate milk using enough syrup for three normal glasses. I also made myself four peanut butter crackers. Then I walked out the living room door to our terrace. The trees were coming! New green was all over ... green so new that it was kissing yellow.
~ E.L. Konigsburg
Suddenly nothing in the world seemed to Guy more glamorous than homosexuality, as romantic as heady white gardenias nested in polished green leaves.
~ Edmund White
There was an Old Person whose habits, Induced him to feed upon Rabbits; When he'd eaten eighteen, He turned perfectly green, Upon which he relinquished those habits.
~ Edward Lear
Good shepherds love their sheep and spare no effort when leading them to green pastures and clear water.
~ Alexander Strauch