“The green of the ice and water begins to be visible about half an hour before sunset. Is it produced by the reflected blue of the sky mingling with the yellow or pink of the setting sun?”
Henry David Thoreau
more infosource: The Journal 1837–1861 (New York: New York Review of Books, 2009), 539.
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category: blue, color, green, ice, nature, pink, sky, sun, sunset, yellow
medium: diary
notes: diary entry dated January 20, 1859
“After some years in the country, during which time I have experienced the satisfactions of working the land, building the soil, and making brown into green, I am beginning to believe that our new world which will open up after the war should be constructed round a repopulated rural America, so that a reasonably large proportion of the population shall participate in the culture of the earth.”
E. B. White
more infosource: “A Week in November,” in One Man’s Meat (New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1944), 334.
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category: brown, country, earth, farm, green, land, rural, soil, sustainability
medium: essay
notes: White wrote this essay in November 1942.
“Only the Japanese would think of serving red watermelon in a green plate.”
Anaïs Nin
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