Green Quotes - Page 28

• See the gold sunshine patching, And streaming and streaking across The gray-green oaks; and catching, By its soft brown beard, the moss.

  Philip James Bailey

  Sunshine, Gold, Beard

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.146

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• Twilight's soft dews steal o'er the village-green, With magic tints to harmonize the scene. Stilled is the hum that through the hamlet broke When round the ruins of their ancient oak The peasants flocked to hear the minstrel play, And games and carols closed the busy day.

  Samuel Rogers

  Twilight, Games, Play

  Samuel Rogers (1854). “The complete poetical works of Samuel Rogers: with a biographical sketch, and notes”, p.63

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• Suffice it to say that black and white are also colors... for their simultaneous contrast is as striking as that of green and red, for instance.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Black And White, Color, Red

  Vincent van Gogh, Colta Feller Ives (2005). “Vincent Van Gogh: The Drawings”, p.173, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• I tried to express through red and green the terrible passions of humanity.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Passion, Humanity, Red

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• The scenery of mountains painted on the ever-changing azure canvas of the sky, the mysterious mechanism of the human body, the rose, the green grass carpet, the magnanimity of souls, the loftiness of minds, the depth of love - all these things remind us of a God who is beautiful and noble.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Beautiful, Sky, Rose

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• All green was anished sae of pine and yew, That still displayed their melancholy hue; Sae the green holly with its berries red, And the green moss that o'er the grael spread.

  George Crabbe

  Hollies, Moss, Yew

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• For winter's rains and ruins are over... And in Green under wood and cover Blossum by blossom the spring begins.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Spring, Rain, Winter

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• In spring, nature is like a thrifty housewife ... taking up the white carpets and putting down the green ones.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Nature, Spring, White

  Mary Baker Eddy (1916). “Miscellaneous Writings: 1883-1896”

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• Green how I love you green. Green wind. Green boughs. The ship on the sea And the horse on the mountain.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Horse, Love You, Wind

  'Romance son mbulo' (1924-7)

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• When mountains and waters are painted, blue, green, and red paints are used, strange rocks and wondrous stones are used, the four jewels and the seven treasures are used. Rice-cakes are painted in the same manner. When a person is painted, the four great elements and five skandhas are used.

  Dogen

  Jewels, Cake, Rocks

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• If the fruit is green it will not fall to the ground even if you beat it with a sharp stick. When it is ripe it falls of its own accord in the silence of the night.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Fall, Night, Silence

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• O lovely lily clean, O lily springing green, O lily bursting white, Dear lily of delight, Spring in my heart agen That I may flower to men.

  John Masefield

  Spring, Flower, Heart

  John Masefield (1978). “Selected poems”, Not Avail

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• The owl and the pussycat went to sea, / In a beautiful pea green boat. / They took some honey, and plenty of money, / Wrapped up in a five pound note.

  Edward Lear

  Beautiful, Sea, Owl

  "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat" l. 1 (1871)

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• Creativity is the life force that Dylan Thomas called 'the force that through the green fuse drives the flower.

  Julia Cameron

  Flower, Creativity, Force

  Julia Cameron (2002). “The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.19, Penguin

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• The hard thing when you get old is to keep your horizons open. The first part of your life everything is in front of you, all your potential and promise. But over the years, you make decisions; you carve yourself into a given shape. Then the challenge is to keep discovering the green growing edge.

  Howard Thurman

  Years, Decision, Challenges

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• Praise the green earth. Chance has appointed her home, workshop, larder, middenpit. Her lousy skin scabbed here and there by cities provides us with name and nation.

  Basil Bunting

  Home, Cities, Names

  Basil Bunting (2016). “The Poems of Basil Bunting”, p.48, Faber & Faber

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• Heavens, how charming it is! There is now in the sky only the soft vaporous color of pale citron - the last reflection of the sun which plunges into the dark blue of the night, going from green tones to a pale turquoise of an unheard-of fineness and a fluid delicacy quite indescribable.

  Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

  Dark, Night, Reflection

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• I have been very careful to put forward new ideas - on tackling inequality, extending democratic reform and the green agenda, because I think these are all absolutely fundamental to a successful next period of office for Labour

  Peter Hain

  Successful, Thinking, Ideas

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• Most eyes have more than one color, but usually they're related. Blue eyes may have two shades of blue, or blue and gray, or blue and green, or even a fleck or two of brown. Most people don't notice that.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Eye, Blue, Color

  Elizabeth Moon (2004). “The Speed of Dark: A Novel”, p.70, Ballantine Books

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• Suddenly a mist of green on the trees, as quiet as thought.

  Dorothy Richardson

  Tree, Quiet, Mist

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• We calculate the amount spent [by Brethren and other anti- Green groups] was between $500,000 and $1 million - that's a huge amount for a state election campaign in Tasmania.

  Bob Brown

  Tasmania, Groups, Campaigns

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• I do wear lipstick because when I suddenly get pale or green, it seems whole blood goes away.

  Nastassja Kinski

  Blood, Pale, Whole

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• Every one of us sees 'green' differently. So everything is an approximation of understanding.

  Nick Bantock

  Understanding, Approximation

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• We should be active leaders in the fight for civil liberties which adequately reflect present social realities. Furthermore the left as a movement must appropriate the green agenda. Sustainability has to become the foundation of all our pursuits. This movement is my dream and vision. The left remains strong in Malta, but stronger it will become if we have the courage to unite and dream.

  Joseph Muscat

  Dream, Strong, Fighting

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• The artist who pictures sounds as colours, who feels the difference in microns between one sea green and another... is not attending to what the world considers important.

  Eric Maisel

  Artist, Sea, Differences

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