Green Cross

Green Cross may refer to:

  • Green Cross of Florida Flag, a flag with a green cross on a white ground flown at Fort San Carlos on Amelia Island in Florida by Gregor MacGregor, a Scottish-born soldier of fortune, who seized the island in June of 1817. The flag played a part in an historical episode called the Amelia Island Affair.
  • Green Cross (Japan), a Japanese pharmaceutical company
  • Green Cross Code, a traffic safety education program in the United Kingdom
  • Green Cross International, an environmental organization founded by Mikhail Gorbachev
  • The Green Cross is the logo for the National Safety Council in the United States
  • Green Cross flags are the industrial safety/health flags in Japan. They are not related to the Japanese pharmaceutical company
  • The Green Cross Code Man was played by David Prowse
  • Green Cross (chemical warfare), a group of World War I chemical warfare agents
  • C.D. Green Cross (1916–1985), a Chilean football (soccer) club currently defunct
  • Club Atlético Green Cross, an Ecuadorian football (soccer) club
  • A common symbol used in the medical marijuana community
  • Retail Pharmacies/Chemists in Europe and elsewhere may display a green cross

Famous quotes containing the words green and/or cross:

    “Gray, dear friend, is all theory,
    But green the golden tree of life.”
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    “All pathways by His feet are worn,
    His strong heart stirs the ever-beating sea;
    His crown of thorns is twined with every thorn;
    His cross is every tree.”
    —Joseph Mary Plunkett (1887–1916)