THE LOVE AFFAIR WITH GREEN & WHITE
Green is the colour of life, renewal, nature, and energy, is associated with meanings of growth, harmony, freshness, safety, fertility, and environment. Green is also traditionally associated with money, finances, banking, ambition, greed and jealousy.
The colour has healing power and is understood to be the most restful and relaxing colour for the human eye to view. Green is associated with renewal, growth, and hope but the colour often stands for both a lack of experience and need for growth.
It affects us physically and mentally in several different ways. Green is soothing, relaxing, and youthful. Green is a color that helps alleviate anxiety, depression, and anxiety. Green is directly related to nature and energy, so it is also commonly used to represent and promote ‘green’ products.
Too much green can cause people to become placid, lazy, slow, moody, depressed, and lethargic. Too little green can cause feelings of apathy and fear of rejection.
Green gemstones are believed to help create balance, promote change or growth, increase feelings of hopefulness and optimism, and break the emotional demands of others.
Different shades, tints, and hues of green have different meanings. For example, dark green represents greed, ambition, and wealth, while yellow-green stands for sickness, jealousy, and cowardice, and olive green represents the traditional colour of peace.
OTHER MEANINGS ASSOCIATED WITH THE COLOUR GREEN
The term “green-eyed monster” refers to a jealous person and the term “green with envy” stands for feelings of jealousy and envy.
Depending upon which colors are used in combination with the color green, it has both a warming and a cooling effect.
Telling someone they have a “green thumb”means that they are good with plants and gardening.
The expression “greener pastures” and “grass is greener” are used in reference to something newer or better.
The phrase “green around the gills” is used when discussing a sickly or pale appearance. Often this description is caused by an upset stomach and the need to throw up.
Additional words that represent different shades, tints, and values of the color green:emerald, sea green, sea foam, olive, olive drab, pea green, grass green, apple, mint, forest, lawn green, lime, spring green, leaf green, aquamarine, beryl, chartreuse, fir, kelly green, pine, moss, jade, sage, yellowgreen, sap, viridian.