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Quotes About Greenery

I do not go outdoors. Not more than I have to. As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of living in New York City is indoors. You want greenery? Order the spinach.
~ David Rakoff
The grass is green The tulip is red A ginger cat walks over The pink almond petals on the flower bed. Enough has been said to show It is life we are taking about. - Oh grateful colours; bright looks!
~ Stevie Smith
For a while, I relaxed among the greenery, digesting my refreshment, rolling my tongue around my mouth to catch the last sweet nuances of Vee's flavour.
~ Storm Constantine
I have always been fascinated by plants. I have always preferred plants to human beings. They give me an enormous amount of solace.
~ Roddy Llewellyn
If you live in Minneapolis, there's a 95 percent chance you live within a 10-minute walk to a park.
~ Tatiana Schlossberg
Kenneth Robert Livingstone
~ I do the gardening.
He was as fressh as is the month of May.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
I don't like the life here in New York. There is no greenery. It would make a stone sick.
~ Nikita Khrushchev
The rainforest has an intense beauty that at times seems almost suffocating. The jungle is one twig short of impenetrable, and the greenery seems to crowd in on you with a sensation that has been described as akin to snow blindness.
~ Mark Barrowcliffe
I love Central Park. I feel like I am somewhere else.
~ Elisabeth Hasselbeck
For the wood was full of light, entirely different from the light she was used to. It was green and amber and alive, quivering in splotches on the padded ground, fanning into sturdy stripes between the tree trunks. There were little flowers she did not recognize, white and palest blue; and endless, tangled vines; and here and there a fallen log, half rotted but soft with patches of sweet green-velvet moss.
~ Natalie Babbitt
The late sun's brilliance could penetrate only in scattered glimmers, and everything was silent and untouched, the ground muffled with moss and sliding needles, the graceful arms of the pines stretched out protectively in every direction. And it was cool, blessedly cool and green.
~ Natalie Babbitt
The park grass looked greener, the park benches looked better and the flowers were trying harder.
~ Charles Bukowski
Tree planting, advocates say, is simpler and less risky than high-tech Wizardly schemes.
~ Charles C. Mann
crowned with a spinney. More
~ Carola Dunn
Trees for Life.
~ George Monbiot
I love greens, like spinach, avocado, broccoli.
~ Hafthor Bjornsson
I like gardening. I'm really a nature man. I spend as much time as I can in nature. I feel really safe there.
~ Lars von Trier
In this solitude there was also a heart that was all ready. Love had only to show its face; there was a temple there composed of greenery, of grass, of moss, of bird sighs, of soft shade, of agitated branches, and a soul made of gentleness, of faith, of candor, of hope, of aspiration, and of illusion.
~ Victor Hugo
I'd been focusing strongly on green since my days in pasture seeing through the eyes of a horse.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Her gardens, in particular, are highly regarded.
~ Geraldine Brooks
That afternoon we reached a small town, an oasis of struggling greenery in the desert... There were saguaros everywhere. I had never seen these cacti in such numbers... Their flesh varied in color from tropical green to gunmetal. The churchyard was full of massive plants standing sentinel. Each cactus had a different number of limbs, ranging from a single erect arm to a crown of fat, prickly oblongs...
~ Abby Geni, The Wildlands, 2018
Silverlake-Echo was several miles due est of Mount lee, a hilly area with lots of twisting streets, greenery and seclusion, the kind of terrain a necrophiliac might find soothing.
~ James Ellroy
We, poor fools, spent this our last day decorating with festal greenery every temple in our town.
~ Virgil