80 Green Quotes to Freshen Up Your Day

1. “As long as you’re green, you’re growing. As soon as you’re ripe, you start to rot.” – Ray Kroc

2. “Being green and clean is not just an aspiration but an action.” – Christine Pelosi

3. “Learn of the green world what can be thy place in scaled invention or true artistry.” – Ezra Pound

4. “Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.” – Pablo Neruda

5. “I just need green. I need to wake up and see grass and squirrels. I don’t want to see skyscrapers.” – Andre Leon Talley

6. “Going green doesn’t start with doing green acts, it starts with a shift in consciousness.” – Ian Somerhalden

7. “Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.” – Lois Lowry

8. “Beauty, strength, and youth are flowers but fading; Duty, faith, and love are roots and evergreen.” – George Peele

9. “The green reed which bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak which breaks in a storm.” – Confucius

10. “For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.” – Martin Luther

11. “My favorite color is jungle green. At least, that’s what it said on the side of my favorite crayon in first grade. I don’t know if it’s an official color.” – Mike Posner

12. “When I was 12 I was obsessed with green and had my get me a bunch of green bedding for my room.” – Doja Cat

13. “Green is a process, not a status. We need to think of ‘green’ as a verb, not an adjective.” – Daniel Goleman

14. “A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.” – Francis Bacon

15. “It’s good to touch the green, green grass of home.” – Tom Jones

16. “All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs evergreen.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

17. “Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart.” – Russell Page

18. “A meter of green is greener than a centimeter.” – Paul Gauguin

19. “But the grass ain’t always greener on the other side, it’s green where you water it.” – Justin Bieber

20. “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.” – Conor Oberst

21. “I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.” – Ella Maillart

22. “With the gun you can make the earth but if you have a plough you can make the earth green.” – Narendra Modi

23. “By the way, most of the light that comes from the sun is green.” – Bill Nye

24. “Keep the corners of your mouth turned up. Speak in a low, persuasive tone. Listen; be teachable. Laugh at good stories and learn to tell them… For as long as you are green, you can grow.” – Mother Teresa

25. “Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.” – Samuel Daniel

26. “O that it might remain eternally green, the beautiful time of youthful love.” – Friedrich Schiller

27. “If you were a cloud, and sailed up there, You’d sail on water as blue as air, and you’d see me here in the fields and say: Doesn’t the sky look green today?” – A. A. Milne

28. “Deep in the meadow, under the willow, a bed of grass, a soft green pillow.” – Suzanne Collins

29. “If you don’t know what makes green, you’re going to try every color combination.” – Alison Krauss

30. “Nature’s first green is gold.” –

31. “The future will either be green or not at all.” – Bob Brown

32. “The pine stays green in winter… wisdom in hardship.” – Norman Douglas

33. “If there is a future, it will be green.” – Petra Kelly

34. “Green calm below, blue quietness above.” – John Greenleaf Whittier

35. “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.” – Noam Chomsky

36. “Stay green, stay in the woods, and stay safe.” – Karl Pilkington

37. “I am in love with this green Earth.” – Charles Lamb

38. “Even in winter, it shall be green in my heart.” – Frédéric Chopin

39. “No water, no life. No blue, no green.” – Sylvia Earle

40. “Nature in her green, tranquil woods heals and soothes all afflictions.” –

41. “For still there are so many things that I have never seen: in every wood in every spring there is a different green.” – J. R. R. Tolkien

42. “When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.” – William Blake

43. “The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.” –

44. “It’s been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don’t suppose anybody really understands yet.” –

45. “Our green valleys will be greener once we fully grasp the infinite vitality of the green!” – Mehmet Murat Ildan

46. “In coastal waters rich in the runoff, plankton can swarm densely, a million in a drop of water. They color the sea brown and green where deltas form from big rivers, or cities dump their sewage. Tiny yet hugely important, plankton governs how well the sea harvests the sun’s bounty, and so are the foundation of the ocean’s food chain.” – Gregory Benford

47. “Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.” – Doug Larson

48. “I love green. Green is the color of nature, trees. I’m a tree freak. I spend a lot of my time planting trees, nurturing them, and studying them. It’s one of the colors I couldn’t live without.” – John Boorman

49. “No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.” –

50. “Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.” – Pedro Calderon de la Barca

51. “Green is the fresh emblem of well-founded hopes. In blue, the spirit can wander, but in green, it can rest.” – Mary Webb

52. “Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy to bring them together, and they tear each other to pieces.” – Virginia Woolf

53. “Green does not have to mean the sort of hair-shirt, a wood-burning-stove sensibility of the ’70s. Green can and should be sleek and modern.” – Graydon Carter

54. “The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the privileged world than to those in the developing nations of the forgotten world.” – Norman Borlaug

55. “Green strongly influences the heart and helps alleviate tension. Positive qualities associated with green are , humility, and cooperation. Foods of the green vibration are all green fruits and green vegetables.” – Tae Yun Kim

56. “Green is a label for a certain attitude to life, a certain kind of respect that one might have for the very source of things that we take for granted.” – Annie Lennox

57. “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

58. “The green is so narrow that if you over-club, you’ve got an impossible bunker shot. If you’re short, you’re pretty much dead.” – Vijay Singh

59. “Green makes me think of silence, or maybe it’s loneliness. I get the feeling of a terribly distant star.” – Kobo Abe

60. “If your knees aren’t green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.” – Bill Watterson

61. “Life is a green madness just now, trying to squeeze the last bit of warmth from the season.” – Vernor Vinge

62. “The roof of my house is covered in solar panels. When I’m home, I’m a pretty green fellow.” – Bill McKibben

63. “Every green natural place we save, saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have a future.” – Wallace Stegner

64. “Once you got a solar panel on a roof, energy is free. Once we convert our entire electricity grid to green and renewable energy, cost of living goes down.” – Elizabeth May

65. “The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger

66. “Green Garden is about beauty and joy and lush green and dance and excitement and smiling from within.” – Laura Mvula

67. “Beautiful as a dandelion-blossom golden in the green grass, this life can be.” – Edna St. Vincent Millay

68. “Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches.” – Federico Garcia Lorca

69. “So our human life but dies down to its root and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.” – Henry David Thoreau

70.“An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight… the truly wise person is colorblind.” – Albert Schweitzer

71.“The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.” – Thomas Carlyle.

72. “In the hierarchy of colors, green represents the social middle class, self-satisfied, immovable, narrow.” – Wassily Kandinsky

73. “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.” – Janelle Monae

74. “I long for the countryside. That’s where I get my calm and tranquility—from being able to come and find a spot of green.” – Emilia Clarke

75. “Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein

76. “You are green, it is true, but they are green also. You are all green alike.” –

77. “An angel visited the green earth and took a flower away.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow