The Essence of Green: Thoughts and Pictures
Imagine for a moment a world without the color green. What a sad place! What does green mean to us? #1 Bleached #2 Stolen The modern English word green is derived from the same Germanic root as the...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Munia Khan
I’ve learnt to gather simplicity from grasshoppers. I like their naive indecisive minds never knowing exactly when to stop chirping, and I envy their ability to be able to mingle with the green…...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Geoff Dyer
We’d never seen anything as green as these rice paddies. It was not just the paddies themselves: the surrounding vegetation – foliage so dense the trees lost track of whose leaves were whose – was a...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Sai Marie Johnson
We like it wet and we like it green, and we are the ones that they call obscene. ―Sai Marie Johnson Public Domain Image via Pexels
View ArticleImitating Nature: Green Cacti of Lina Cofán
Nature is a great source of inspiration for creatives of all types. Lina Cofán takes a whimsical look at cacti. Lina Cofán was working as a performance and theater based artist in Berlin when she...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Laurie Halse Anderson
Slush is frozen over. People say that winter lasts forever, but it’s because they obsess over the thermometer. North in the mountains, the maple syrup is trickling. Brave geese punch through the thin...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Ian Somerhalder
Going green doesn’t start with doing green acts — it starts with a shift in consciousness. This shift allows you to recognize that with every choice you make, you are voting either for or against the...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Omar Khayyam
When you are so full of sorrow that you can’t walk, can’t cry anymore, think about the green foliage that sparkles after the rain. When the daylight exhausts you, when you hope a final night will...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Henry David Thoreau
A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Ray Bradbury
My grandfather ran off the V-2 rocket film a dozen times and then hoped that some day our cities would open up and let the green and the land and the wilderness in more, to remind people that we’re...
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