Green Quotes - Page 6

• When I tell her what I’m thinking and she tells me what she’s thinking, our each ideas jumping into the other’s head, like coulouring blue crayon on top of yellow that makes green.

  Emma Donoghue

  Thinking, Jumping, Blue

  Emma Donoghue (2015). “Room: Picador Classic”, p.14, Pan Macmillan

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• Spring was running in a thin green flame over the valley.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Running, Spring, Flames

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• Emerald green eyes studied us from a face that could have been sculpted by one of the classical artists I so admired. Shocked, I dismissed the comparison as soon as it popped into my head. This was a vampire, after all. It was ridiculous to admire him the way I would some hot human guy.

  Richelle Mead

  Eye, Artist, Guy

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.34, Penguin

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• In the hierarchy of colors, green represents the social middle class, self-satisfied, immovable, narrow.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Self, Color, Class

  Wassily Kandinsky (1970). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art: And Painting in Particular”

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• In a world where millions of human beings live in extreme poverty, die of malnutrition and lack medical care, where pandemics continue to kill, it is imperative to pursue good faith disarmament negotiations and to shift budgets away from weapons production, war-mongering, surveillance of private persons and devote available resources to address global challenges including humanitarian relief, environmental protection, climate change mitigation and adaptation, prevention of pandemics, and the development of a green economy.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  War, Challenges, Environmental

  "UN Expert Urges States to Cut Military Spending and Invest More in Human Development". www.ohchr.org. April 14, 2014.

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• Spring scarce had greener fields to show than these Of mid September; through the still warm noon The rivulets ripple forth a gladder tune Than ever in the summer; from the trees Dusk-green, and murmuring inward melodies, No leaf drops yet; only our evenings swoon In pallid skies more suddenly, and the moon Finds motionless white mists out on the leas.

  Edward Dowden

  Summer, Spring, Moon

  Edward Dowden (1877). “Poems”

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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. . . They dined on mince and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon, The moon, The moon, They danced by the light of the moon.

  Edward Lear

  Beautiful, Moon, Light

  "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat" l. 21 (1871)

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• I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-Am.

  Dr. Seuss

  Memorable, Eggs, Ham

  Green Eggs and Ham (1960)

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• Inwardness is the characteristic feature of the vegetable rather than the animal approach to existence. The animals move, migrate and swarm, while plants hold fast. Plants live in a dimension characterised by solid state, the fixed and the enduring. If there is movement in the consciousness of plants then it must be the movement of spirit and attention in the domain of vegetal imagination. (...) This is the truth that the shamans have always known and practiced. Awareness of the green side of mind was called Veriditas by the twelfth century visionary Hildegard Von Bingen.

  Terence McKenna

  Moving, Animal, Vegetables

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• The green reed which bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak which breaks in a storm.

  Confucius

  Wind, Storm, Stronger

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• Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.

  William Shakespeare

  Ocean, Blood, Hands

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 2, l. 61

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• Jerusalem (1804) And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green And was the holy lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen And did the countenance divine Shine forth upon our clouded hills And was Jerusalem builded here Among those dark Satanic mills Bring me my bow of burning gold Bring me my arrows of desire Bring me my spears o'clouds unfold Bring me my chariot of fire I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand 'Til we have built Jerusalem In England's green and pleasant land

  William Blake

  Sleep, Fighting, Dark

  'Milton' (1804-10) Preface 'And did those feet in ancient time'

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• Green chemistry is replacing our industrial chemistry with nature's recipe book. It's not easy, because life uses only a subset of the elements in the periodic table. And we use all of them, even the toxic ones.

  Janine Benyus

  Book, Toxic, Use

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• Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as well as love the dog of our own life, and the dog down the street, and all the dogs not yet born. What would the world be like without music or rivers or the green and tender grass? What would this world be like without dogs?

  Mary Oliver

  Dog, Rivers, Honor

  Mary Oliver (2013). “Dog Songs: Deluxe Edition”, p.63, Penguin

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• The Admiral says that he never beheld so fair a thing: trees all along the river, beautiful and green, and different from ours, with flowers and fruits each according to their kind, many birds and little birds which sing very sweetly.

  Christopher Columbus

  Beautiful, Kindness, Flower

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• It was a morning of ground mist, yellow sunshine, and high rifts of blue, white-cloud-dappled sky. The leaves were still thick on the trees, but de-spangled gossamer threads hung on the bushes and the shrill little cries of unrest of the swallows skimming the green open park spaces of the park told of autumn and change.

  Flora Thompson

  Morning, Sunshine, Autumn

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• There is a beautiful thing which is wonderful, to look like a woman, not a green bean

  Laetitia Casta

  Beautiful, Looks, Wonderful

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• It takes a person of great care and insight to watch for any abnormality in the green grass even while it grows abundantly and healthily.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  Watches, Care, Grass

  "A Personal Matter". Book by Kenzaburo Oe, 1964.

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• In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.

  John Fowles

  Winter, Essence, Civilization

  1969 The French Lieutenant's Woman, ch.10.

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• I love color. It must submit to me. And I love art. I kneel before it, and it must become mine. Everything around me glows with passion. Every day reveals a new red flower, glowing, scarlet red. Everyone around me carries them. Some wear them quietly hidden in their hearts. And they are like poppies just opening, of which one can see only here and there a hint of red petal peeking out from the green bud.

  Paula Modersohn-Becker

  Art, Flower, Passion

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• Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On him, a lean and slender physique would have looked like very bad casting.

  Craig Claiborne

  Food, Cooking, Giants

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• The castle grounds were gleaming in the sunlight as though freshly painted; the cloudless sky smiled at itself in the smoothly sparkling lake, the satin-green lawns rippled occasionally in a gentle breeze: June had arrived.

  J. K. Rowling

  Summer, Lakes, June

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• And joy is everywhere; it is in the earth's green covering of grass; in the blue serenity of the sky.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Blue, Sky, Joy

  Rabindranath Tagore (2006). “Sadhana”, p.96, 1st World Publishing

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• The Louvre! The Louvre has me in its clutches. Every time I'm there rich blessings rain down upon me. I am coming to understand Titian more and more and learning to love him. And then there is Botticelli's sweet Madonna, with red roses behind her, standing against a blue-green sky. And Fiesole with his poignant little biblical stories, so simply told, often so glorious in their colors.

  Paula Modersohn-Becker

  Sweet, Rain, Biblical

  Paula Modersohn-Becker, Günter Busch, Liselotte von Reinken, Arthur S. Wensinger, Carole Clew Hoey (1998). “Paula Modersohn-Becker, the Letters and Journals”, p.157, Northwestern University Press

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• It's untrue to say the colors I use are not those of reality. They are real: The red I use is red; the green, green; blue, blue; and yellow, yellow. It's a matter of arranging them differently from the way I find them, but they are always real colors. So it's not true that when I tint a road or a wall, they become unreal. They stay real, though colored differently for my scene.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Wall, Real, Blue

  Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com

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