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76 Quotes About Green to Inspire You

Looking for your daily doses of inspiration? These quotes about green are exactly what you need for a colorful life!

As a symbol of hope, the color green is everywhere, from the leaves of a tree to animals and beyond. Yes, there are plenty of green things in nature.

In light of that, we decided to put together this list of inspiring quotes green to add some aspirational hope and calm to your day.

Let’s get to them, dear color lovers!

Quotes About Green

“Remember, green’s your color. You are spring.” Gwendolyn Brooks

Green quotes

“Nature in her green, tranquil woods heals and soothes all afflictions.” John Muir

“Nature’s first green is gold.” Robert Frost

“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

It’s not easy being green. Kermit the Frog

Quotes about green

“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

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

“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.” Rumi

“Do something green today.” Unknown

Quote about green

“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

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

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

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

Green quotes

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

“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

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

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

Quote about green

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

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

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

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

Quotes about green

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

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

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

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

Green quotes

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Green Quotes

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

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

“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

Quotes about green

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

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

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

“They’ll sell you thousands of greens. Veronese green and emerald green and cadmium green and any sort of green you like; but that particular green, never.” Pablo Picasso

Quotes on green

“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

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

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

“Dark green is my favorite color. It’s the color of nature and the color of money and the color of moss!” Leonardo DiCaprio

Quotes about green

“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

“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

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

“When you’re green, your growing. When you’re ripe, you rot.” Ray Kroc

Quote about green

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

“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

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

“The artist who pictures sounds as colors, who feels the difference in microns between one sea green and another… is not attending to what the world considers important.” Eric Maisel

Quotes on green

“With the gun, you can make the earth red but if you have a plow you can make the earth green.” Narendra Modi

“Even in winter, it shall be green in my heart.” Frederic Chopin

“In coastal waters rich in 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 is the foundation of the ocean’s food chain.” Gregory Benford

“Green represents the dead image of life.” Rudolf Steiner

Quotes about green

Color Green Quotes

“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

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

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

“My father pointed to the moon and asked me what color it was. I couldn’t tell. So he told me to look at the horizon and then glance back quickly at the moon. Then I saw it: it was pale green.” Alden Baker

Quotes on green

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

“Green is a soothing color, isn’t it? I mean Gryffindor rooms are all well and good but the trouble with red is — it is said to send you a little mad — not that I’m casting aspersions . . .” Jack Thorne

“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

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

Quote about green

“Nature in her green, tranquil woods heals and soothes all afflictions.” John Muir

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

“I can breathe where there is green. Green grows hope. It keeps my heart beating and helps me remember who I am.” Courtney M. Privett

“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

Quotes on green

“How green was my valley then, and the valley of them that have gone.” Richard Llewellyn

“I think I look great in green, and I’m going to start wearing more green.” Garry Shandling

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

“Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.” Noam Chomsky

Green quotes

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

“No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.” Rudyard Kipling

“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

“Absolute green is the most restful color, lacking any undertone of joy, grief, or passion. On exhausted men, this restfulness has a beneficial effect, but after a time it becomes tedious.” Wassily Kandinsky

Green quotes

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

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

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

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

Quote about green

“O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey’d monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.” William Shakespeare

“You are green, it is true; but they are green also. You are all green alike.” Abraham Lincoln

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

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

Quotes on green

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