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Quotes About Greenery

Green fingers are better than gold.
~ Stephen Fry
I love the smell of rain and growing things.
~ Serina Hernandez
Most importantly, studies have shown that easy access to green space significantly improves mental and physical health. It reduces stress to boot and improves cognitive development in children.
~ Ben Wilson
Just having plants around helps with your mood. You feel relaxed.
~ Pia Wurtzbach
The garden was at its best that first week in the month of June. The peonies were more opulent than usual and I walked slowly through the green light on the terrace above the white river, enjoying the heavy odor of peonies and of new roses rambling in hedges.
~ Gore Vidal
Here is a little forest Whose leaf is ever green; Here is a brighter garden, Where not a frost has been; In its unfading flowers I hear the bright bee hum; Prithee, my brother, Into my garden come!
~ Emily Dickinson
He could not die when trees were green, for he loved the time too well.
~ John Clare
Green how I love you green. Green wind. Green boughs. The ship on the sea And the horse on the mountain.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
I love Central Park. I spend a lot of time in there. I try and get in there whenever I can.
~ Lili Taylor
Internationally, I love going to Switzerland. I went there many times for shooting and loved the Alps, the tranquility, cleanliness, the greenery and the warmth of the people there.
~ Chiranjeevi
I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour.
~ Jacqueline Bisset
The place is really exceptional and I am fascinated and inspired, as Nagaland with its lush greenery and picturesque mountains as well as the peaceful atmosphere reminds me of my country Jamaica.
~ Liz Mitchell
She loved the sea only for its storms, and greenery only when it was scattered among ruins.
~ Gustave Flaubert
n'aimait la mer qu'à cause de ses tempêtes, et la verdure seulement lorsqu'elle était clairsemée parmi les ruines. Il fallait qu'elle pût retirer des choses une sorte de profit personnel ; et elle rejetait comme inutile tout ce qui ne contribuait pas à la consommation immédiate de son cÅ"ur, – étant de tempérament plus sentimentale qu'artiste, cherchant des émotions et non des paysages.
~ Gustave Flaubert
El camp semblava un enorme mantell desplegat amb un collaret de vellut verd enribetat amb un galó d'argent.
~ Gustave Flaubert
It was in mid-summer, when the alchemy of Nature transmutes the sylvan landscape to one vivid and almost homogeneous mass of green; when the senses are well-nigh intoxicated with the surging seas of moist verdure and the subtly indefinable odours of the soil and the vegetation. In such surroundings the mind loses its perspective; time and space become trivial and unreal, and echoes of a forgotten prehistoric past beat insistently upon the enthralled consciousness.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces.
~ Virginia Woolf
I prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees.
~ Ziggy Marley
Forests are the lungs of our land.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Trees are contagious; as soon as one neighborhood or street is planted, citizen pressure builds up for action from the next street.
~ William H. Whyte
Suddenly a mist of green on the trees, as quiet as thought.
~ Dorothy Richardson
He could not die when the trees were green, For he loved the time too well.
~ John Clare
Trees cause pollution.
~ Ronald Reagan
I would use going into nature to clear myself - trees and plants including having plants at your house is a wonderfully natural way to continuously clear yourself.
~ Doreen Virtue