Green quotes
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"A great acacia, with its slender trunk And overpoise of multitudinous leaves. (In which a hundred fields might spill their dew And intense verdure, yet find room enough) Stood reconciling all the place with green."
"The future will either be green or not at all."
"You speak like a green girl / unsifted in such perilous circumstances."
"Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing."
"The shortest unit of time in the multiverse is the New York Second, defined as the period of time between the traffic lights turning green and the cab behind you honking."
"Let the green girl go!"
"Many a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of Misery, Or the mariner, worn and wan, Never thus could voyage on."
"How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green!"
"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."
"I'm listening to a lot of oldies.A lot of Al Green, Marvin Gaye. Luther Vandross... they were some of my icons."
"I married him for a green card. We had a really great, caring relationship; it just obviously wasn't right for me."
"The Green Revolution focused on the big three - maize, rice and wheat - and the Green Revolution did not adapt the big three to African conditions, other than South Africa, as much as they should have."
"I'm trying to be as green as I can. As an airline pilot, I have a carbon footprint that's a size 10, so it's pretty hard."
""What do women want?" "They eat green salad and drink human blood.""
"On and on they flew, over the countryside parceled out in patches of green and brown, over roads and rivers winding through the landscapes like strips of matte and glossy ribbon."
"For the forest to be green, each tree must be green."
"Gray are all the theories, But green is the tree of life."
"The marks humans leave are too often scars."
"You are green, it is true; but they are green also. You are all green alike."
"The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of God's green earth."
