“Oh, sweet thy current by town and by tower, The green sunny vale and the dark linden bower; Thy waves as they dimple smile back on the plain, And Rhine, ancient river, thou'rt German again!” DarkSweetRiversTownsGreenAncientWaveCurrentsTowersSunnyDimples Author:Horace Binney Wallace
“Maybe tomorrow when He looks down Every green field and every town All of his children every nation There'll be peace and good, brotherhood... Crystal blue persuasion.” LooksChildrenNationsPeaceFieldsTomorrowTownsBlueGreenBrotherhoodPersuasionCrystalsGreen FieldsMaybe Tomorrow Author:Tommy James
“The sign said 'The Green Turtle, Chelonia myadas, is the source of turtle soup....' I am the source of William G. soup if it comes to that. Everyone is the source of his or her kind of soup. In a town as big as London, that's a lot of soup walking around.” IfsKindSaidBigsSourceWalkingTownsGreenLondonSoupTurtles Author:Russell Hoban
“Jungles and grasslands are the logical destinations, and towns and farmland the labyrinths that people have imposed between them sometime in the past. I cherish the green enclaves accidentally left behind.” PeoplePastLeftBehindsTownsGreenLogicalDestinationCherishJungleLeft BehindLabyrinthFarmlandGrasslands Author:E. O. Wilson
“On the Gang of Eight bill, there was no provisions really for extra scrutiny or safety for refugees. At the time the bill came up, two Iraqi refugees came to my home town, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Their fingerprints were on a bomb from Iraq. They were in the database, but we didn't pick them up.” TwoHomePicksTownsSafetyGreenBillsIraqEightExtrasBombsRefugeeGangProvisionScrutinyKentuckyBowlingFingerprintsDatabasesHome Town Author:Rand Paul
“Nature with her wonders blinds and binds one still. There is no escape. I love her utterly through all time and times. All over the world towns to me are prison; green fields are home.” WorldStillsHomeNatureWonderFieldsTownsGreenPrisonAll TimeGreen Fields Author:Marion Dudley Cran
“You go to towns in Massachusetts, Greenfield, first settled in 1686. Wouldn’t it be cool if it said, “Greenfield. First settled c. 13,000 B.P. or approximately 13,000 Before the Present. Resettled.” Maybe we could say even, “Resettled by whites,” Or, “Resettled anyway, 1686.” It would have a different impact. And of course it would help explain why the town is called Greenfield, because it was a green field and the fields were left by Native people who had already been farming them.” PeopleIfsFirstsSaidDifferentHelpingCoursesLeftFieldsTownsGreenImpactNativeFarmingBeing CoolMassachusettsGreen Fields Author:James W. Loewen
“The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for the many. The glittering mansion overlooks a vast sprawl of shanty towns, wherein a desperate, demoralized humanity is kept in line with drugs, television, and armed force.” EarthPoliticalHumanityTurnsForceNatureLinesMoneyTelevisionDrugCapitalismGoldEssenceArmyTownsGreenLuxuryDesperateToxicTransformedCommodityBricksItemsMansionsArmed ForcesGreen EarthDemoralizedSlagLuxury Items Author:Michael Parenti
“The sky is purple, the flare of a match behind a cupped hand is gold; the liquor is green, bright green, made from a thousand herbs, made from altars. Those who know enough to drink Chartreuse at Mardi Gras are lucky, because the distilled essence of the town burns in their bellies. Chartreuse glows in the dark, and if you drink enough of it, your eyes will turn bright green.” IfsKnowsMadeEnoughHandsEyeTurnsDarkBehindsSkyDrinkThousandLuckyGoldEssenceTownsGreenBellyPurpleAltarsLiquorHerbsFlareMardi GrasGlow In The DarkChartreuse Author:Poppy Z. Brite
“Somewhere, things must be beautiful and vivid. Somewhere else, life has to be beautiful and vivid and rich. Not like this muted palette -a pale blue bedroom, washed out sunny sky, dull green yellow brown of the fields. Here, I know ever twist of every road, every blade of grass, every face in this town, and I am suffocating.” KnowsBeautifulFacesRichSkyFieldsTownsBlueGreenGrassDullBrownYellowPaleBedroomTwistsBladesVividSomewhere ElseSunnyPaletteBlades Of GrassSuffocating Author:Lisa Ann Sandell
“Salzburg... is a mountain town with a rushing river running right through the center, everything in the rain various shades of green and brown.” RunningMountainRainRiversTownsGreenVariousBrownShadeHikingRushingRainyRainy DaySalzburg Author:Jonathan Carroll
“When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's exclusiveness, which admits but small entrance to any sympathy from the green country without - oh, weariness! heaviness! Guinea-coast slavery of solitary command!” ThinkingLifeHas BeensCountrySolitudeTownsSlaveryGreenCommandThis LifeSolitaryCaptainsCoastEntrancesWearinessDesolationGuineaHeaviness Author:Herman Melville
“The longer I live here, the better satisfied I am in having pitched my earthly camp-fire, gypsylike, on the edge of a town, keeping it on one side, and the green fields, lanes, and woods on the other. Each, in turn, is to me as a magnet to the needle. At times the needle of my nature points towards the country. On that side everything is poetry. I wander over field and forest, and through me runs a glad current of feeling that is like a clear brook across the meadows of May. At others the needle veers round, and I go to town--to the massed haunts of the highest animal and cannibal.” MayCountryFeelingsRunningTurnsSidesAnimalClearFireFieldsHighestTownsGreenRoundsEdgesCurrentsWoodsGladSatisfiedForestsWanderCampsNeedlesLanesBrooksMeadowsMagnetCannibalGreen Fields Book:A Kentucky Cardinal, Aftermath, and Other Selected Works Source: A Kentucky Cardinal, Aftermath, and Other Selected Works
“The vast majority of local people will neither know all of the initiatives nor have any perception that the individual elements are beginning to contribute to making their home town more environmentally sustainable. It is even less likely that visitors will gain any picture of what is being achieved. It is to solve this problem that the Green Map System has been developed.” PeopleKnowsHas BeensProblemHomeIndividualElementsPerceptionGainsTownsGreenMajoritySolveLocalsMapsInitiativeVisitorsHome Town Author:Paul Burrell
“We do not go to the green woods and crystal waters to rough it, we go to smooth it. We get it rough enough at home, in towns and cities.” EnoughHomeWaterWalksCitiesJourneyWalkingTownsGreenWoodsWanderRoughHikingSmoothCrystalsTrekkingStrollingSaunteringBackpacking Book:Woodcraft and Camping Source: Woodcraft and Camping