Greening Quotes

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

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Creativity, Spirit, Creatures

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• 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.

  Charles A. Reich

  America, Trying, Problem

  "Fame the Blaze and the Burnout". "Fame the Blaze and the Burnout" by Don Oldenburg, www.washingtonpost.com. March 24, 1987.

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• We need a greening of globalisation.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Needs, Globalisation

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

  Abbie Hoffman

  Drinking, Commitment, Dope

  "Steal This Book". Book by Abbie Hoffman. Introduction, p. V, 1971.

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• 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.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Drinking, Commitment, Dope

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• 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.

  John Ciardi

  Change, Ideas, Growth

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• 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.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Inspirational, Air, Giving

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

  Jean Houston

  Growing, Spirituality, Consciousness

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• 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.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Pain, Fall, Tree

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• Once, when I was younger, I thought I could be someone else. I'd move to Casablanca, open a bar, and I'd meet Ingrid Bergman. Or more realistically - whether actually more realistic or not - I'd tune in on a better life, something more suited to my true self. Toward that end, I had to undergo training. I read The Greening of America, and I saw Easy Rider three times. But like a boat with a twisted rudder, I kept coming back to the same place. I wasn't anywhere. I was myself, waiting on the shore for me to return.

  Haruki Murakami

  Moving, America, Self

  "Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World". Book by Haruki Murakami, September 1991.

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• 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.

  Jill Stein

  Jobs, Government, Twenties

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• 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.

  Jill Stein

  Saving, Cost, Half

  "Jill Stein tells The Times editorial board why she thinks voting Democrat or Republican makes little difference". www.latimes.com. September 6, 2016.

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• 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.

  David Macbeth Moir

  Summer, Song, Flower

  David Macbeth Moir (1852). “The Poetical Works of David Macbeth Moir”, p.149

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• 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.

  Walton Goggins

  School, Light, People

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• 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.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Inward, Cosmos, Looks

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2003). “Green Mars”, p.19, Spectra

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• 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.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Stars, Moon, Thinking

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• 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.

  Alan Watts

  Friendship, Spring, Men

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• 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.

  Gregory Kats

  School, Design, Quality

  "Greening America’s Schools: costs and benefits". Research by Gregory Kats, www.usgbc.org. October 2006.

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• 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.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Drinking, Commitment, Dope

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• 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.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Peace, Tree, Serenity

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “The Conservationist”, p.20, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• 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.

  Andrew Weil

  Agency, Priorities, Citizens

  "The Question No One Asks About Healthcare" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 25, 2009.

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• 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.

  Ronald Reagan

  Night, Men, Fire

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• 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.

  Ken Yeang

  Thinking, Government, People

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• 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.

  Terry Tamminen

  Jobs, Doe, Green

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• 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.

  Keith E. Idso

  Media, Confusion, News

  "CO2: Villain Or Friend? An Exclusive Interview With Keith E. Idso". Interview with Bonner Cohen, www.heartland.org. January 1, 1999.

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