Green Quotes

• Green is the fresh emblem of well founded hopes. In blue the spirit can wander, but in green it can rest.

  Mary Webb

  Blue, Color, May

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• A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forests. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high.

  William Sharp

  Wind, Giving, Mountain

  William Sharp, Elizabeth Amelia Sharp (1910). “The Winged destiny. Studies in the spiritual history of the Gael”

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• A blade of grass is a commonplace on Earth; it would be a miracle on Mars. Our descendants on Mars will know the value of a patch of green. And if a blade of grass is priceless, what is the value of a human being?

  Carl Sagan

  Miracle, Would Be, Mars

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.309, Ballantine Books

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• When Summer lies upon the world, and in a noon of gold, Beneath the roof of sleeping leaves the dreams of trees unfold; When woodland halls are green and cool, and wind is in the West, Come back to me! Come back to me, and say my land is best!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Summer, Dream, Lying

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.466, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen;
  Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green.

  George Peele

  Flower, Roots, Fading

  'Polyhymnia' (1590) ad fin. 'Sonnet'

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• Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Nature, Color, Green World

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• Green calm below, blue quietness above.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Blue, Sky, Calm

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.365

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• Stay green, stay in the woods, and stay safe.

  Karl Pilkington

  Safe, Woods

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you're green, your growing. When you're ripe, you rot.

  Ray Kroc

  Motivational, Growing Up, Rotting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.

  Lois Lowry

  Nature, Heart, Bird

  Lois Lowry (1983). “Taking Care of Terrific”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• She never told her love, but let concealment, like a worm 'i th' bud, feed on her damask cheek. She pinned in thought; and, with a green and yellow melancholy, she sat like Patience on a monument, smiling at grief. Was not this love indeed? We men may say more, swear more; but indeed our shows are more than will; for we still prove much in our vows but little in our love.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Men, Yellow

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 4, l. [108]

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• Look for the valleys, the green places, and fly through them. There will always be a way through.

  C. S. Lewis

  Valleys, Looks, Way

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen”, p.84, Harper Collins

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• The sun's champagne streamed from one body into another. And there was a couple on the green silk of the grass, covered by a raspberry umbrella. Only their feet and a little bit of lace could be seen. In the magnificent universe beneath the raspberry umbrella, with closed eyes, they drank in the sparkling madness. 'Extra! Extra! Zeppelins over the North Sea at 3 o'clock.' But under the umbrella, in the raspberry universe, they were immortal. What did it matter that in another far-away universe people would be killing each other?

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Couple, Eye, Sea

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• I think I look great in green, and I'm going to start wearing more green.

  Garry Shandling

  Thinking, Looks, Comedy

  "Interview: Garry Shandling (Over The Hedge)". Interview with Devin Faraci, www.chud.com. May 19, 2006.

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• Even in winter it shall be green in my heart.

  Frederic Chopin

  Love, Romantic, Spring

  Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.106, Courier Corporation

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• I am in love with this green Earth.

  Charles Lamb

  Love, Earth, Green Earth

  Charles Lamb (1869). “The Essays of Elia and Eliana”, p.38

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• Green is a label for a certain attitude to life, a certain kind of respect that one might have for the very source of things that we take for granted.

  Annie Lennox

  Respect, Attitude, Labels

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• By the way, most of the light that comes from the sun is green.

  Bill Nye

  Light, Way, Sun

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• Nature in her green, tranquil woods heals and soothes all afflictions.

  John Muir

  Affliction, Woods, Heal

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.220, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• For still there are so many things that I have never seen: in every wood in every spring there is a different green.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Spring, Different, Woods

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.199, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Nature's first green is gold.

  Robert Frost

  Gold, Firsts, Springtime

  Betsy Melvin, Tom Melvin, Robert Frost (2000). “Robert Frost's New England”, p.29, UPNE

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• Green is a process, not a status. We need to think of 'green' as a verb, not an adjective.

  Daniel Goleman

  Thinking, Needs, Adjectives

  Daniel Goleman (2009). “Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything”, p.28, Crown Business

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• All in green went my love riding

  e. e. cummings

  Riding

  "All in green went my love riding" l. 1 (1923)

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• It's good to touch the green, green grass of home

  Tom Jones

  Home, Grass, Green Grass

  Song: Green Green Grass Of Home

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• Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have a future.

  Wallace Stegner

  Giving, Littles, Sanity

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