“They moved together, blue diamonds on a green field.”
Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
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O. Henry (1862–1910) American short story writer
"The Vitagraphoscope" in Cabbages and Kings http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext01/ckngs10.txt (1904)
Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) French Post-Impressionist artist
Comment voyez-vous cet arbre? Il est bien vert? Mettez donc du vert, le plus beau vert de votre palette; — et cette ombre, plutôt bleue? Ne craignez pas la peindre aussi bleue que possible.
Quote from a conversation in 1888, Pont-Aven, with Paul Sérusier as cited by w:Maurice Denis, inL'influence de Paul Gauguin, in Occident (October 1903) and published in Du symbolisme au classicisme. Théories (1912), ed. Olivier Revault d'Allonnes (Paris, 1964), p. 51.
1870s - 1880s
“No ocean, no life. No blue, no green. No ocean, no us.”
Sylvia Earle (1935) American oceanographer
[Earle, Sylvia, BREAKING: Dr. Sylvia Earle Boldly Addresses the UN To Urge Legal Protection for High Seas, http://mission-blue.org/2015/01/breaking-dr-sylvia-earle-boldly-addresses-the-un-to-urge-legal-protection-for-high-seas/, www.missionblue.org, Mission Blue, 28 January 2015]
“Now fields are green, and trees bear silver buds.”
John Ogilby (1600–1676) Scottish academic
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Bucolicks
“Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.”
H.P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) American author
“Only the blue sky, green land alliance can make Taiwan better.”
Annette Lu (1944) Taiwanese politician
Annette Lu (2006) cited in " Politicians of all stripes honor Chiang Wei-shui http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2006/08/06/2003322033" on Taipei Times, 6 August 2006.
Tom Stoppard book Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead