GREEN

green n 1 : a colour whose hue is somewhat less yellow than that of growing fresh grass or of the emerald or is that of the part of the spectrum lying between blue and yellow 2 : something of a green colour 3 green vegetayion as a pl leafy parts of plants for use as decoration b pl leafy herbs (as spinach, dandelions, Swiss chard) that are boiled or steamed as a vegetable 4 : a grassy plain or plot: as a : a common or park in the center of a town or village b : Putting Green -Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary

A primary of light but not of pigments, green is also a psychological primary in that it is seen as a basic hue, along with red, yellow and blue. Green is associated with growth, youth and fertility, as in the Green Man of pre-Christian myth. -Living Colours

Symbolic of the life of the sensations, green also stands for nature - not only growth but decay. Linked also with jealousy, it is an ambivalent colour. A positive link is with Tir Nan Og, the Celtic isle of the blessed, to which the soul migrated through the fog of death. -The Secret Language of Symbols

The colour of the plant kingdom, awakening springtime, it is also the colour of water, life and freshness. It mediates between the hell fire of red and the blue of heaven. As the colour of the annual renewal of nature, green is the colour of hope, long life and immortality.

In China green is assoicated with lightning and thunder, wood and the yin principle. In Islam, green is the colour of material and spiritual salvation, wisdom and the Prophets. -Herder Dictionary of Symbols

Set midway between the inaccessible absolutes of the blue of Heaven and the red of Hell, green, with its middling quality, mediates between heat and cold and high and low. It is a comforting, refreshing, human colour. After Winter strips bare and freezes the Earth which supports human beings, convincing them of their lonliness and vulnerability, Spring comes to clothe the Earth once more in green, bringing hope and making it again the nurse of the human race. Green is warm. The coming of Spring is heralded by the thawing of the ice and falling of rain. -The Penguin Dictionary of Symbols

Of all the colours in the spectrum, green offers the widest array of choices. Blue-greens represent the best qualities of the two "mother" colours - blue and green, always elcit pleasant responses. Bright greens are associated with grass ... Emerald greens are elegant ... Deep greens are seen as stately tall pines and associated with refreshing scents ... Deep greens are also associated with money and prestige... Yellow greens are best accepted in a gardening/floral motif ... Vivid yellow-green tones are most often associated with nausea and illness ... Chartreuse is an excellent attention getter ... -Communicating with Colour

Green retains a strange and complex character derived from its twin polarity - the green of the bud and of decay, life and death. Green is the image of the depths and of Fate. -The Penguin Dictionary of Symbols

Comments

[NessieNoodle]

oooh.. another one of my fav colors! I used that lamb's pride to make my first hat! paired it with a blue color...

I agree with Jaenette, wondeful photos!

[Jeanette]

Your photographs have such lovely, harmonious, and peaceful composition.