LiFe In CoLoUr

  Green

Green is the color of nature. It symbolizes growth, harmony, freshness, and fertility. Green has strong emotional correspondence with safety. Dark green is also commonly associated with money.

Green has great healing power. It is the most restful color for the human eye; it can improve vision. Green suggests stability and endurance. Sometimes green denotes lack of experience; for example, a 'greenhorn' is a novice. In heraldry, green indicates growth and hope. Green, as opposed to red, means safety; it is the color of free passage in road traffic.

Use green to indicate safety when advertising drugs and medical products. Green is directly related to nature, so you can use it to promote 'green' products. Dull, darker green is commonly associated with money, the financial world, banking, and Wall Street.

Dark green is associated with ambition, greed, and jealousy.
Yellow-green can indicate sickness, cowardice, discord, and jealousy.
Aqua is associated with emotional healing and protection.
Olive green is the traditional color of peace.

Indian Green Parrot

A rare white alligator swims at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans.

The northern lights, or aurora borealis, produce a brilliant display in the skies near Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada.

Two boys share a nighttime bicycle ride down the darkened streets of Hoi An, Vietnam.

Leaf-green pierid alight on the sandy shores of the Tuichi River in Bolivia's Madidi National Park.

A Japanese tea farmer picks leaves in a verdant field in central Japan's mountainous Nara Prefecture.

A green frog sits atop a large lily pad in the waters of Atchafalaya Delta.

In a nocturnal rendezvous, two green tree frogs meet face-to-face atop a leaf in Louisiana's Atchafalaya River Delta.

Lush, green grasses wave to and fro in the wind.

A pool of water at the mouth of Rio Frio Cave reflects the greenery of Belize’s Chiquibul Forest and frames a visitor in silhouette.

A green tree snake peers from its leafy perch in Costa Rica’s Caribbean lowland.