Green Cross

Green Cross may refer to:

  • Green Cross of Florida Flag, a flag with a green cross on a white ground flown at Fort San Carlos on Amelia Island in Florida by Gregor MacGregor, a Scottish-born soldier of fortune, who seized the island in June of 1817. The flag played a part in an historical episode called the Amelia Island Affair.
  • Green Cross (Japan), a Japanese pharmaceutical company
  • Green Cross Code, a traffic safety education program in the United Kingdom
  • Green Cross International, an environmental organization founded by Mikhail Gorbachev
  • The Green Cross is the logo for the National Safety Council in the United States
  • Green Cross flags are the industrial safety/health flags in Japan. They are not related to the Japanese pharmaceutical company
  • The Green Cross Code Man was played by David Prowse
  • Green Cross (chemical warfare), a group of World War I chemical warfare agents
  • C.D. Green Cross (1916–1985), a Chilean football (soccer) club currently defunct
  • Club Atlético Green Cross, an Ecuadorian football (soccer) club
  • A common symbol used in the medical marijuana community
  • Retail Pharmacies/Chemists in Europe and elsewhere may display a green cross

Famous quotes containing the words green and/or cross:

    “The landscape was clothed in a mild and quiet light, in which the woods and fences checkered and partitioned it with new regularity, and rough and uneven fields stretched away with lawn-like smoothness to the horizon, and the clouds, finely distinct and picturesque, seemed a fit drapery to hang over fairyland. The world seemed decked for some holiday or prouder pageantry ... like a green lane into a country maze, at the season when fruit-trees are in blossom.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But in doing so they contribute to making their fatherland, abandoned by spirit, into the gaping jaws of Asia that would like to swallow our little Europe.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)