Best Greening Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Simplest of blossoms! To mine eye Thou bring'st the summer's painted sky; The May-thorn greening in the nook; The minnows sporting in the brook; The bleat of flocks; the breath of flowers; The song of birds amid the bowers; The crystal of the azure seas; The music of the southern breeze; And, over all, the blessed sun, Telling of halcyon days begun.”

May Eye Song Sun Sea Sky Mines Flower Summer Bird Breaths Blessed Southern Breeze Simplest Crystals Flocks Brooks Azure Greening Minnows Halcyon Days

Book:The Poetical Works of David Macbeth Moir

Source: The Poetical Works of David Macbeth Moir

“The greening of the desert means sowing seeds in people's hearts and creating a green paradise of peace on earth.”

People Heart Mean Earth Peace Creating Green Seeds Desert Paradise Peace On Earth Sowing Sowing Seeds Greening

Author:Masanobu Fukuoka

“I think green buildings are extremely important but it's only part of the equation. A lot of people think that if I put a green building everything is going to be fine, but actually it's not just the green buildings we need, but green businesses, green governments, green economics. We have to extend the greening of buildings to our business and our lifestyles - that is the most important thing to do next.”

People Ifs Thinking Needs Important Government Next Building Fine Economics Green Important Things Lifestyle Things To Do Equations Greening

Author:Ken Yeang

“Go Green, Live Rich is the ultimate toolkit for greening the planet and our wallets at the same time. No one does a better job than David Bach in showing us the practical strategies for how to enjoy living sustainably.”

Doe Jobs Enjoy Rich Planets Ultimate Green Strategy Practicals Wallets Better Jobs Go Green Greening

Author:Terry Tamminen

“There appears to be a lot of confusion about the biological benefits of elevated CO2 because the popular media typically fails to report them. Doomsday scenarios of global warming are much more dramatic than the good news of global greening.”

Failing Media Benefits News Confusion Dramatic Reports Global Warming Good News Scenarios Co2 Doomsday Greening

Author:Keith E. Idso

“Simply from greening our energy system and eliminating fossil fuel pollution, we get so much healthier that the savings in health care alone are enough to pay the costs of the green energy transition and would repay those costs in approximately a decade and a half in savings.”

Enough Care Energy Pay Half Cost Green Decades Saving Health Care Fuel Transition Pollution Fossils Savings Fossil Fuel Eliminating Green Energy Greening

Author:Jill Stein

“Twenty million jobs is what we call for in the Green New Deal, which is essentially a New Deal focused on greening the economy on an emergency basis. So it's 20 million jobs, which are mixed, private sector, nonprofits, government jobs where others will not do the job and will not create the employment.”

Government Jobs Deals Millions Economy Bases Twenties Green Focused Employment Emergencies Private Sector Nonprofits New Deal Greening Government Jobs

Author:Jill Stein

“Citizens must pressure the American Hospital Association, the American Public Health Association, the Centers for Disease Control and other relevant governmental agencies to make greening our hospitals and medical centers a top priority so that they themselves don't create even more illness.”

Citizens Disease Pressure Illness Medical Priorities Agency Hospitals Relevant Association Public Health Top Priorities Greening

Author:Andrew Weil

“Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.”

Commitment Drinking Smoking Milk Stamps Collecting Dope Postage Postage Stamps Greening Smoking Dope

Author:Abbie Hoffman

“What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human beings cannot do with dignity, let alone without pain.”

Humans Pain Fall Can Do Human Beings Tree Dignity Fading Flowering Without Pain Greening

Author:Martha Gellhorn

“The thorn tree just began to bud And greening stained the sheltering hedge, An many a violet beside the wood Peeped blue between the withered sedge; The sun gleamed warm the bank beside, 'Twas pleasant wandering out a while Neath nestling bush to lonely hide, Or bend a musings o'er a stile.”

Sun Tree Spring Lonely Blue Woods Warm Wander Pleasant Violet Bud Musings Withered Greening Stiles

Book:Careless Rambles by John Clare: A Selection of His Poems Chosen and Illustrated by Tom Pohrt

Source: Careless Rambles by John Clare: A Selection of His Poems Chosen and Illustrated by Tom Pohrt

“If the earth is man's extended body, to be loved and respected as one's own body, those who do no greening of themselves will hardly bring about the greening of America. The idea of 'greening' involves color, flowering, freshness of spring, and, above all, respect for what is organic and vegetative as distinct from the mechanical and metallic.”

Ifs Men Ideas Body Earth America Friendship Community Color Spring Freshness Flowering Metallic Greening

Author:Alan Watts

“Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power.”

Consciousness Revolution Commitment Empty Drinking Alcohol Smoking Milk Stamps Distribution Collecting Dope Postage Postage Stamps Greening Distribution Of Power Smoking Dope

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.”

Ideas Growth Change Bears Seeds Landscape Sermons Bolts Starting Anew Good Questions Greening

Author:John Ciardi

“The soul is a breath of living spirit, that with excellent sensitivity, permeates the entire body to give it life. Just so, the breath of the air makes the earth fruitful. Thus the air is the soul of the earth, moistening it, greening it.”

Inspirational Giving Soul Body Earth Spirit Air Breaths Excellent Sensitivity Greening

Author:Hildegard of Bingen

“Fellow Americans, our duty is before us tonight. Let us go forward, determined to serve selflessly a vision of man with God, government for people, and humanity at peace. For it is now our task to tend and preserve, through the darkest and coldest nights, that "sacred fire of liberty" that President Washington spoke of two centuries ago, a fire that tonight remains a beacon to all oppressed of the world, shining forth from this kindly, pleasant, greening land we call America.”

Source: Ronald Reagan

“Greening school design provides an extraordinarily cost-effective way to enhance student learning, reduce health and operational costs and, ultimately, increase school quality and competitiveness.”

Way School Quality Design Students Cost Increase Climate Competitiveness Student Learning Greening

Author:Gregory Kats

“The tendrils of a new, deeper form of spirituality are growing. It's the greening under the surface crust of consciousness and social paradigm.”

Form Spirituality Social Consciousness Growing Deeper Surface Paradigm Greening

Author:Jean Houston

“Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power. We are not interested in the greening of Amerika except for the grass that will cover its grave.”

“The Word is living, being, spirit, all verdant greening, all creativity. This Word manifests itself in every creature.”

Spirit Creativity Creatures Greening

Author:Hildegard of Bingen

“Glance at the sun. See the moon and the stars. Gaze at the beauty of earth’s greenings. Now, think. What delight God gives to humankind with all these things . All nature is at the disposal of humankind. We are to work with it. For without we cannot survive.”

Thinking Giving Earth Stars Sun Moon Delight Humankind Glances Greening

Author:Hildegard of Bingen

“One of the problems with fame is they try to pigeonhole you... like I'm stuck with The Greening of America for the rest of my life.”

Trying Problem America Fame Stuck Greening

Author:Charles A. Reich

“Look at the pattern this seashell makes. The dappled whorl, curving inward to infinity. That's the shape of the universe itself. There's constant pressure, pushing towards pattern. A tendency in matter to evolve into ever more complex forms. It's a kind of pattern gravity, a holy greening power we call 'Viriditas' and it is the driving force in the cosmos. Life, you see.”

Looks Kind Matter Form Universe Force Holy Shapes Pressure Constant Complexes Patterns Driving Tendencies Evolve Cosmos Pushing Infinity Gravity Inward Driving Force Greening

Book:Green Mars

Source: Green Mars

“I try to leave a light footprint. I'm involved with Global Green, which aims to educate people about sustainable building and the greening of schools. I try to be aware about the consumption of unnecessary things in a consumptive culture.”

People Trying Light School Culture Building Involved Aim Green Educate Consumption Unnecessary Footprint Greening Unnecessary Things

Author:Walton Goggins

“Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.”

Peace Tree Seasons Silver Openness Serenity Indigenous Greening Grasslands

Book:The Conservationist

Source: The Conservationist

“We need a greening of globalisation.”

Needs Globalisation Greening

Author:Sigmar Gabriel