Green Quotes - Page 3

• An angel visited the green earth, and took a flower away.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Flower, Angel, Earth

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Voices Of The Night: The Reaper And The Flowers”

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• He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Color, Moral

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.950, Wordsworth Editions

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• Despite the fact that computer speeds are measured in nanoseconds and picoseconds - one billionth and one trillionth of a second, respectively - the smallest interval of time known to man is that which occurs in Manhattan between the traffic signal turning green and the taxi driver behind you blowing his horn.

  Johnny Carson

  Travel, Home, Men

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• Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart.

  Russell Page

  Heart, Garden, Fingers

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• Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Clever, Intelligent, Valleys

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 76e), 1980.

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• Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Heart, Roots

  "Overcoming Self-Doubt — What I Have Been Learning From Rumi" by Faisal Hoque, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2015.

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• Learn of the green world what can be thy place
  In scaled invention or true artistry

  Ezra Pound

  Art, Green World, Invention

  Cantos no. 81, l. 148 (1948)

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• Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Color, Wind, Branches

  Federico García Lorca, “Romance Sonámbulo”

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• If you don't know what makes green, you're going to try every color combination.

  Alison Krauss

  Color, Trying, Combination

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• Rain is a blessing when it falls gently on parched fields, turning the earth green, causing the birds to sing.

  Donald Worster

  Rain, Fall, Blessing

  Donald Worster (1994). “The Wealth of Nature: Environmental History and the Ecological Imagination”, p.84, Oxford University Press

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• Our green valleys will be greener once we fully grasp the infinite vitality of the green!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Vitality, Valleys, Infinite

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• I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.

  John Green

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Amy Mek‏ @AmyMek, twitter.com. June 4, 2015.

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• You are green, it is true; but they are green also. You are all green alike.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Civil War

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “Abraham Lincoln's Wit & Wisdom”, p.185, Courier Corporation

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• So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Attitude, Positive Thinking, Roots

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.183, Graphic Arts Books

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• There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Motivational, Nature, Animal

  "Paradigms Lost: Learning from Environmental Mistakes, Mishaps and Misdeeds" by Daniel A. Vallero, (p. 367), 2005.

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• O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.

  William Shakespeare

  Jealousy, Envy, Tragedy

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 165

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• My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.

  John Green

  Stars, I Hate You, Faults

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.176, Penguin

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• We all use the future to escape the present.

  John Green

  Life, Alaska, Imagining The Future

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.47, Penguin

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• The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

  William Blake

  Nature, Moving, Eye

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.136, Penguin

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• You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.

  John Green

  Inspirational, Hipster, Ideas

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.123, Penguin

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• One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green.

  John Gunther

  Golf, Balls, Hopping

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• One moment flying in green sunlight, then the sky suddenly grey and dark.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Dark, Sky, Flying

  Elizabeth Wein (2012). “Code Name Verity”, p.256, Egmont UK

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• Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.

  William Ruckelshaus

  Nature, Lunch, Pollution Control

  Business Week, June 18, 1990.

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• Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Nature

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• Don King doesn't care about black or white. He just cares about green.

  Larry Holmes

  Kings, White, Boxing

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