Moving through dense jungle, I watched for green vervet monkeys, brought to Saint Kitts as pets, and then left behind when the French departed in 1783.

BBC: The last railway in the West Indies

From the 16, 000-foot summit of Point Lenana, one of three peaks that comprise the Mount Kenya massif, we can see Kilimanjaro's shiny white dome rising to the south, the blue of the Indian Ocean lying to the east, and a lush green canopy of jungle spreading to the north.

CNN: The snows of Erukenya

Fog was hanging from the places where the jungle protruded from the dark-green mountain.

NEWYORKER: Swimming

Lady Liberty towers in her green bronze toga over the concrete jungle and waterways.

FORBES: Meryl Streep, Female Symbols and The National Women's History Museum

The maps show, in dark green, Indonesia's virgin jungle and, in a lighter shade, the secondary forest which, in many places, surrounds it.

ECONOMIST: Banyan

Nursing bruises and bites, travellers are able to discover an abandoned city that is still revealing its secrets, exploring green copses and stone paths through dense jungle, bathing in waterfalls, sleeping among ruins, and most majestic of all, watching the clouds spill across the terraces at sunset each night.

BBC: Trekking to Colombia��s Lost City

At last the summer was like a green sick dream, or like a silent crazy jungle under glass.

NPR: Excerpt: 'The Member of the Wedding'

With green shag carpet lining the walls and ceiling of the Jungle Room, multi-coloured fabric running riot in the Pool Room, and a mirrored ceiling in the TV room, Graceland is star-studded grandiosity.

BBC: Music City to Dixieland: A musical roots run

It also used to be described as the green city in the sun, but now it more resembles a concrete jungle.

BBC: Joseph's odyssey

The unsmiling, uniformed ranks in hats, bayonets and jungle speak of war, while peace exudes from the cheering, formless crowd with green headbands and bouquets amid a cityscape.

CNN: CENTURY OF LIBERATION