If I find a green meadow splashed with daisies and sit down beside a clear-running brook, I have found medicine. It soothes my hurts as well as when I sat in my mother's lap in infancy, because the Earth really is my mother, and the green meadow is her lap.
I never really lived outside of the city growing up, but I'm always looking in between the lines of the city, and I magnetize over to the green spots.
You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.
Every green herb, from the lotus to the darnel, is rich with delicate aids to help incurious man.
What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.
We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved.
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children
Originally, the atoms of carbon from which we're made were floating in the air, part of a carbon dioxide molecule. The only way to recruit these carbon atoms for the molecules necessary to support life-the carbohydrates, amino acids, proteins, and lipids-is by means of photosynthesis. Using sunlight as a catalyst the green cells of plants combine carbon atoms taken from the air with water and elements drawn from the soil to form the simple organic compounds that stand at the base of every food chain. It is more than a figure of speech to say that plants create life out of thin air.
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.
Victory usually goes to those green enough to underestimate the monumental hurdles they are facing.
If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink
When I behold the heavens as in their prime, And then the earth (though old) still clad in green, The stones and trees, insensible of time, Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are seen
Concentrate on hitting the green. The cup will come to you.
Children go with whatever makes them feel good - like if that's the color green or orange, they do that with their clothes. As I've grown older, everything reversed. My music, my personality - onstage those things became my colors.
They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green.
Nature, when undisturbed, is never monotonous, you know. Even when using green, the most frequent color on her palette, she throws in contrasting tints by way of expression, and you will seldom see two sides of a leaf of the same hue, and the leaf stem frequently gives a good dash of bronze or purple.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
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