#green

The miracle of light pours over the green and brown expanse of saw grass and of water, shining and slowly moving, the grass and water that is the meaning and the central fact of the Everglades. It is a river of grass. ↗

— Marjory Stoneman Douglas

#central #everglades #expanse #fact #grass

Canada sets aside 36 percent of their visas for people with skills they think their country needs. We set aside six percent. We educate the doctors, and then don't give 'em a green card. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#canada #card #country #doctors #educate

You don't think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it. What - doesn't make a difference! Doesn't make a difference. I think he did a good job. ↗

— Cab Calloway

#black #did #difference #good #good job

Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it. ↗

— Rachel Field

#fortune #good #good fortune #greener #happiness

Yeah, and I went straight into a fantasy world. Just stepped straight into the abyss. You know, I was gone and kids used to walk past my front room, cause I lived on the green. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#cause #fantasy #fantasy world #front #gone

We cannot continue to close our eyes to the fact that we have to truly embrace green jobs, new technologies and alternative sources of energy. ↗

— Luis Fortuno

#cannot #close #continue #embrace #energy

When I grew up Carl Lewis was still running, Maurice Greene was running - he was that figure I see, like Michael Johnson. I really wanted to look up to the fast guys - so those two guys were some of the guys I looked up to. ↗

— Tyson Gay

#fast #figure #greene #grew #guys

When they discover I have a green card there may be some problems. ↗

— Bruce Greenwood

#discover #green #green card #i #may

You know what I always dreamed of? That with the greenhouse effect, one day Estonia can be what L.A. is right now. I always thought when the end of the world comes, I want to be in Estonia. I think then I'd survive. ↗

— Carmen Kass

#comes #day #dreamed #effect #end

The food was so good that with each passing course, our conversation devolved further into fragmented celebrations of its deliciousness: 'I want this dragon carrot risotto to become a person so I can take it to Las Vegas and marry it. ↗

— John Green

#hazel-grace #humor #john-green #the-fault-in-our-stars #food