Shades and Varieties of Green
(See also Shades of green)
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Green is the color of growing grass.
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Emerald green. The Gachala Emerald from the National Museum of Natural History, Washington.
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Jade. A jade dragon from the Han Dynasty, China. Jade can be many different shades of green.
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A 10th century celadon pot from China (Musee Guimet, Paris). The color celadon is a pale tint of spring green.
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Malachite green. A giant malachite vase in the Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Lime green, Named for the lime fruit, inclines toward yellow.
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The back of the U.S. dollar has been green since 1861.
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Olive or olive green.
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Olive drab was the standard color of U.S. Army combat uniforms from World War II through the Vietnam War. This is the field jacket of the U.S. Army M-1943 Uniform from 1942.
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Famous quotes containing the words shades and, shades, varieties and/or green:
“Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, “just in case” in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.”
—Alexander Herzen (1812–1870)
““... So it’s plain to be discerned
That the shades of holy men
Who have failed, being weak of will,
Pass the Door of Birth again,
And are plagued by crowds, until
They’ve passion to escape.””
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of services, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who activates all of them in everyone.”
—Bible: New Testament, 1 Corinthians 12:4-6.
“There was a green branch hung with many a bell
When her own people ruled this tragic Eire;
And from its murmuring greenness, calm of Faery,
A Druid kindness, on all hearers fell.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)