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“Conceive a jelly-fish such as sails in our summer seas, bell-shaped and of enormous size - far larger, I should judge, than the dome of St. Paul's. It was of a light pink colour veined with a delicate green, but the whole huge fabric so tenuous that it was but a fairy outline against the dark blue sky. It pulsated with a delicate and regular rhythm. From it there depended two long drooping, green tentacles, which swayed slowly backwards and forwards. This gorgeous vision passed gently with noiseless dignity over my head, as light and fragile as a soap-bubble, and drifted upon its stately way.”

Source: Tales of Unease

“The little dictator who went to Moscow in his green fatigues to receive a bear hug did not forsake the doctrine of Lenin when he returned to the West and appeared in a two-piece suit. (On Daniel Ortega Saavedra)”

Littles Two Funny Pieces Bears Green West Doctrine Suits Sarcastic Hug Dictator Fatigue Forsake Moscow Bear Hugs

Author:Ronald Reagan

“If the graves of the thousands of victims who have fallen in the terrible wars of the two races had been placed in line the philanthropist might travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, and be constantly in sight of green mounds.”

Ifs Two War Might Lines Race Terrible Travel Sight Victim Green Graves Fallen Lakes Funny Travel Pacific Philanthropist

Book:Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire

Source: Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire

“The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I could look down into the vegetable garden enclosed within its tall pale of reeds - rich chocolate earth studded emerald green, frothed with the white of cauliflowers, jeweled with the purple globes of eggplant and the scarlet wealth of tomatoes.”

“We are seeing the birth of a new perspective of the world, where ecology and economics are two sides of the same coin.”

World Two Sides Environment Seeing Society Perspective Birth Economics Green Environmental Ecology Coins Two Sides New Perspective

Author:Leif Johansson

“In Mexico City, Tehran, Kolkata, Bangkok, Shanghai, and hundreds of other cities, the air is no longer safe to breathe. In some cities, the air is so polluted that breathing is equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes per day.”

Two Cities Environment Air Safe Green Breathe Breathing Smoking Mexico Cigarette Packs Tehran Mexico City Shanghai Bangkok

Book:Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Substantially Revised)

Source: Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Substantially Revised)

“The Winner is always part of the answer. The Loser is always part of the problem. The Winner always has a program. The Loser always has an excuse. The Winner says, "Let me do it for you." The Loser says, "That's not my job." The Winner sees an answer for every problem. The Loser sees a problem for every answer. The Winner sees a green near every sand trap The Loser sees two or three sand traps near every green. The Winner says, "It may be difficult but it's possible." The Loser says, "It might be possible but it's too difficult." Be a Winner.”

May Two Problem Might Jobs Three Difficult Answers Program Let Me Green Excuse Winner Sand Loser Traps Winner And Loser

Author:Vince Lombardi

“The way two people can end up in the same place, find each other in a crowd, and change their lives and the lives of the people around them forever... It makes you believe in fate. And fate gives love some authority. Like it's been stamped with approval from above, if you believe in above. A godly green light. Some destined significance.”

People Ifs Way Giving Believe Two Ends Light Forever Fate Authority Green Crowds Significance Approval Godly Destined If You Believe Green Lights

Author:Deb Caletti

“Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.”

“Now we stand at our own crossroads, looking out upon two futures: one with rising temperatures, rising oceans, and rising violence on a hot and strip-mined planet and another with expanding organic harvests, growing solar arrays, and deepening global partnerships on a green and thriving Earth.”

Two Earth Growing Violence Planets Ocean Hot Green Climate Change Rising Partnership Harvest Expanding Temperature Crossroads

Book:The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems

Source: The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems

“In his garden every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation. Each within his green enclosure is a creator, and no two shall reach the same conclusion; nor shall we, any more than other creative workers, be ever wholly satisfied with our accomplishment. Ever a season ahead of us floats the vision of perfection and herein lies its perennial charm.”

“You would not believe how loose this car is for two laps after the green. Then, just like that, it's back to how it was before. But, those first few laps, damn, it's loose! JUNIOR NO LIKEY!”

Firsts Believe Two Car Green Damn Lap Juniors

Author:Dale Earnhardt, Jr.

“What a time herbs and weeds, and such things could talk, A man in his garden one day did walk, Spying a nettle green (as th'emeraude) spread in a bed of roses like the ruby red. Between which two colors he thought, but his eye, The green nettle did the red rose beautify. "How be it," he asked the nettle, "what thing Made him so pert? So nigh the Rose to Spring.”

Men May Made Two Eye Walks Color One Day Bed Spring Red Garden Green Rose Spread His Eyes Weed Herbs Rubies Red Rose Nettles Bed Of Roses

Author:John Heywood

“February is a suitable month for dying. Everything around is dead, the trees black and frozen so that the appearance of green shoots two months hence seems preposterous, the ground hard and cold, the snow dirty, the winter hateful, hanging on too long.”

Long Two Hard Seems Black Tree Dying Months Cold Green Winter Appearance Snow Dirty Frozen Hateful Suitable Two Months February Hanging On

Author:Anna Quindlen

“Sometimes the valley below is like a bowl filled up with fog. I can see hard green figs on two trees and pears on a tree just below me. A fine crop coming in. May summer last a hundred years.”

Years May I Can Two Sometimes Hard Lasts Tree Fine Summer Hundred Green Filled Valleys Bowls Fog Crops Figs Pears Filled Up Two Trees

Author:Frances Mayes