Jennifer Johnston

I had an emerald ring that my mother gave me four or five years before she died. She wore it always, I wore it always, and I have given it to my daughter, and she wears it always. This ring belonged originally to my great, great grandfather. It's well over 150 years old.

Irish Novelist

Erika Christensen

Green has always been my mom's favorite color. My father, aunt and I have gotten her jade, emerald, and peridot pieces over the years, and we always seem to be on the lookout.

American Actress

Neelam Kothari

I have experimented with semi-precious stones because it's more fun and affordable too. Then, I have the colourful rubies, Columbian emeralds and a mix of everything.

Olivia Wilde

I love eye makeup. I really like doing a cat eye, playing with liquid liners and different colors of liners, like emerald and deep blues, combining them with black.

Jade Jagger

I have always made my own jewelry. I particulary love emeralds and black diamonds, and I'm always wearing large cocktail rings.

English Designer

Tori Amos

I'm a classic emerald green Sixties Jaguar that nobody can own, but my husband is allowed to drive.

American Musician

Barbi Benton

Actually, diamonds are a very common stone. I prefer emeralds.

American Model

Jamie Anderson

Emerald Bay is absolutely beautiful and a definite must see.

American Athlete

Rachel Tucker

Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.

Irish Musician

Christina Binkley

Diamonds may be forever, but emeralds are for 2013.

Emeralds imply wealth and elegance, often used to describe expensive items or luxurious imagery.

Luxury Connotation

Emeralds have historical significance and may reference ancient cultures like Egypt and Rome.

Historical Gemstone

In reality, emeralds often have flaws or 'inclusions' despite seeming perfect in idioms or descriptions.

Not Always Perfect

When describing color, 'emerald' evokes a vivid, deep green, suggesting lushness and vitality.

Vibrant Visuals

'Emerald' as an adjective often relates to natural scenery, emphasizing the beauty of the environment.

Nature-Related

Referring to eyes, 'emerald' suggests rare beauty or mystery, commonly used in literature.

Describing Eyes

'Emerald' as a bird species indicates a specific group, typically known for their green plumage.

Specific Species

The emerald birds mentioned are often unique to certain regions, like the tropics of South America.

Geographic Habitat

 and they spend the rest of their life recreating these hats and getting further and further, and it's extraordinary, and there's another group, they're called the Kalam, and they live in the next valley, but they speak a completely different language, they look completely different, and they wear a hat, and it's built out of scarabs, these fantastic emerald green little scarabs,

Jimmy Nelson: Gorgeous...

 tree almost in this emerald green world that you're looking straight up but if you were looking horizontally it's it's there's no ambient light it's pretty dark there's another picture made in fjord land of some animals called sea pens which a reminiscent of the old quill pens but these are like a type of

Crucial Waters PIPE...

 and it is a truth universally acknowledged that an emerald cockroach wasp in possession of some fertilized eggs must be in want of a cockroach. When she finds one, she stabs it with a stinger that is also a sense organ. This discovery came out three weeks ago.

Ed Yong: Suicidal wasps,...

 back it is like there's a little tiny forest glistening emerald green right at your fingertips with more stories from every corner of our wild world they were magical things that we could never possibly have encounters we'll take you

BBC Earth Podcast:...

 if you see that shiny exoskeleton these green emerald shiny beetle in the sunlight it's just so amazing that a beetle that lives in poop all of its life is so pretty the dung beetle fauna in Colorado is very poor is impoverished

Meet a Beautiful Beetle...

 While diamonds, rubies, emeralds, and other precious stones are often indistinguishably similar, no two opals look the same, thanks to a characteristic called "play of color." This shimmering, dazzling, dancing display of light

The most colorful...

 But in the midst of the revelry, the castle doors split open. A towering knight riding an emerald steed burst into the room, stunning the court into silence. Then, in a deep bellowing voice, he proposed a game.

The myth of Gawain and...

 the story of precious stones diamonds emeralds rubies and sapphires has been told often most of us are aware of the good the bad and the ugly blood diamonds

Justice for gem miners ...

 rockfish in between the kelp fronds and down here we're in pointing with my life now is some of the kelp species you find in these emerald waters we have

Dive with Octopuses and...

 a silver ox, yes, okay, a red donkey, and what was the emerald color? A rooster. An emerald rooster. Okay. Now for the moment of truth, Gwen,