Green Quotes - Page 16

• For 'tis green, green, green, where the ruined towers are gray, And it's green, green, green, all the happy night and day; Green of leaf and green of sod, green of ivy on the wall, And the blessed Irish shamrock with the fairest green of all.

  Mary Elizabeth McGrath Blake

  Wall, Spring, Blessed

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• Those living in rural areas as well as those with a planning policy remit for those areas have an important responsibility to protect green belt agricultural land for the wider benefit of feeding the UK into the uncertain future that we all face

  Phil Harding

  Responsibility, Land, Important

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• Destroying green belt agricultural land for immediate economic gain is like burning your children's inheritance to cook a single meal

  Phil Harding

  Children, Land, Meals

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• To change our national economic story from one of financial speculation to one of future growth, we need a third industrial revolution: a green revolution. It will transform our economy as surely as the shift from iron to steel, from steam to oil. It will lead us toward a low-carbon future, with cleaner energy and greener growth. With an economy that is built to last - on more sustainable, more stable foundations

  Chris Huhne

  Iron, Oil, Growth

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• Britain has squandered its windfall of natural resources from North Sea oil and gas. Instead of prudently investing the 'unearned income' from nature, to build a safe, clean and green energy supply for the nation, we face unnecessary shortages. But there is still a chance to put the proceeds from liquidating our fossil fuel assets to better and more appropriate use. Instead of oil companies profiteering from climate change and oil depletion, a windfall tax could establish an Oil Legacy Fund to pay for Britain's urgent transition to a sustainable, decentralised energy system

  Andrew Simms

  Oil, Sea, Pay

  "Fund clean energy with oil tax" by Terry Macalister, www.theguardian.com. October 22, 2006.

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• Make the wrong choices now and future generations will live with a changed climate, depleted resources and without the green space and biodiversity that contribute both to our standard of living and our quality of life

  Tony Blair

  Space, Choices, Quality

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• Once we had become locked in on a schedule, he (Coach Denny Green) often created a disruption (artificial adversity) to that schedule just to see how guys would respond.

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Adversity, Guy

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• Green pastures are before me, which yet I have not seen;
  Bright skies will soon be o'er me, where the dark clouds have been.
  My hope I cannot measure, my path to life is free,
  My Savior has my treasure, and He will walk with me.

  Anna Laetitia Waring

  Dark, Sky, Clouds

  Anna Laetitia Waring, “In Heavenly Love Abiding”

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• To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Children, Balance, Age

  Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson (1915). “"Virginibus puerisque," and othe other papers. Memories and portraits. Familiar studies of men and books”

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• Three Songs 1 Mountain. I whip my quick horse and don't dismount and look back in wonder. The sky is three feet away. 2 Mountain. The sea collapses and the river boils. Innumerable horses race insanely into the peak of battle. 3 Mountain. Peaks pierce the green sky, unblunted. The sky would fall but for the columns of mountains.

  Mao Zedong

  Song, Horse, Fall

  Zedong Mao (2008). “The Poems of Mao Zedong”, p.59, Univ of California Press

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• To look at any thing,
  If you would know that thing,
  You must look at it long:
  To look at this green and say,
  "I have seen spring in these
  Woods," will not do - you must
  Be the thing you see:
  You must be the dark snakes of
  Stems and ferny plumes of leaves,
  You must enter in
  To the small silences between
  The leaves,
  You must take your time
  And touch the very peace
  They issue from.

  John Moffitt

  Spring, Dark, Snakes

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• We bury our seeds and wait,
  Winter blocks the road,
  Flowers are taken prisoner underground,
  But then green justice tenders a spear

  Rumi

  Block, Flower, Taken

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• When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself "Yes indeed, all that belongs to me!"

  Henri Rousseau

  Sun, Flowering, Countryside

  Cornelia Stabenow, Henri Rousseau (1994). “Henri Rousseau, 1844-1910”, Taschen

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• The future will either be green or not at all.

  Bob Brown

  Environmental

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

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• You can be totally committed to conservative principles - to individual liberty, a market economy, entrepreneurship and lower taxes - and still be a Green Conservative. You can believe that with the sound use of science and technology and the right incentives to encourage entrepreneurs, conservatism can provide a better solution for the health of our planet than can liberalism.

  Newt Gingrich

  Believe, Technology, Entrepreneur

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• Whoop it up for liberty! After Ireland is free, says the patriot who won't touch socialism, we will protect all classes, and if you won't pay your rent you will be evicted same as now. But the evicting party, under command of the sheriff, will wear green uniforms and the Harp without the Crown, and the warrant turning you out on the roadside will be stamped with the arms of the Irish Republic. Now, isn't that worth fighting for?

  James Connolly

  Party, Fighting, Class

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• When I paint green, it doesn't mean grass; when I paint blue, it doesn't mean sky.

  Henri Matisse

  Mean, Blue, Color

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• So perhaps the correct conclusion is that Green was less attuned to how people sound when they speak - the actual words and expressions they employ - than to what they mean. This notion of dialogue as a pure expression of character that...transcends the specifics of time and place may be partly why the conversations in the works of writers such as Austen and Bronte often sound fresh and astonishingly contemporary.

  Francine Prose

  Character, Mean, Expression

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• But that was my very first time on a set and they said, you know, you have to stand on a mark. That little piece of tape that you stand on is called a mark. I kept correcting them and telling them that my name was Michael and not Mark. They said, 'No, no honey.' I was a little green.

  Michael Weatherly

  Names, Tape, Pieces

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• He would dream of discovering a magic optometrist from whom he would purchase a pair of green-tinged spectacles which would correct his regrettable myopia, and after that he would be able to see through the dense, blinding air to the fabulous world beneath.

  Salman Rushdie

  Dream, Air, Magic

  Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

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• You look green, immature. A young boy playing at business, dressing up in the manner in which he believes an actual grown-up would. Your viewpoint of business attire is one of wide-eyed wonder from the nursery door.

  Chris Murray

  Believe, Boys, Doors

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• It was neat to see a plaque on the 18th fairway, and go up there and kind of look at the green and just remembering the moment.

  Paula Creamer

  Looks, Kind, Remember

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• When people look for the road in the clouds
  The cloud road disappears
  The mountains are tall and steep
  The streams are wide and still
  Green mountains ahead and behind
  White clouds to east and west
  If you want to find the cloud road
  Seek it within

  Hanshan

  White, Clouds, People

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• For the forest to be green, each tree must be green.

  George Harrison

  Tree, Forests

  "George Harrison honoured by tree in Los Angeles after beetles ate predecessor" by Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2015.

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• I've eaten a bag of Green apples. Boarded the train, there's no getting off

  Sylvia Plath

  Apples, Bags, Train

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.102, Faber & Faber

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