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If Earth Looks Like a Blue Marble, Why Is Earth Day Associated with the Color Green? Also, 'Funnest.'
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Shakespeare used green to refer to youth, Cleopatra refers to my salad days when i was green. The expression the green wit could indicate an immature wit, or one that remains fresh. In the early nineteenth century, red and green signals were used on railways for night time visibility leading to the association of green and go. Green refers to environmentalism broadly, though sometimes writers would signal that they were using the word in a novel way by placing it in scare quotes.
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