Green Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old green quotes, green sayings, and green proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen. Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green. George Peele
Green is the fresh emblem of well founded hopes. In blue the spirit can wander, but in green it can rest. Mary Webb
When you're green, your growing. When you're ripe, you rot. Ray Kroc
Nature in her green, tranquil woods heals and soothes all afflictions. John Muir
Green is a process, not a status. We need to think of 'green' as a verb, not an adjective. Daniel Goleman
Nature's first green is gold. Robert Frost
Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart. Russell Page
Learn of the green world what can be thy place in scaled invention or true artistry. Ezra Pound
Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly. Pablo Neruda
Green makes me think of silence, or maybe it's loneliness. I get the feeling of a terribly distant star. Kobo Abe
In the hierarchy of colors, green represents the social middle class, self-satisfied, immovable, narrow. Wassily Kandinsky
Green calm below, blue quietness above. John Greenleaf Whittier
Life is a green madness just now, trying to squeeze the last bit of warmth from the season. Vernor Vinge
A meter of green is greener than a centimeter. Paul Gauguin
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
With the gun you can make the earth red but if you have a plough you can make the earth green. Narendra Modi
A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green. Francis Bacon
Green does not have to mean the sort of hair-shirt, wood-burning-stove sensibility of the '70s. Green can and should be sleek and modern. Graydon Carter
Our green valleys will be greener once we fully grasp the infinite vitality of the green! Mehmet Murat ildan
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
All our wisdom is stored in the trees. Santosh Kalwar
Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises. Pedro Calderon de la Barca
If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life. Bill Watterson
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously. Noam Chomsky
The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy. Arnold Schwarzenegger
Going green doesn't start with doing green acts, it starts with a shift in consciousness. Ian Somerhalden