Quick selection tool failing to select objects

Every time I use Quick selection tool it selects the area which I don't want to use. I have a website called JoGuru Social Travel Network for which I need to edit it's logo. Now since the logo has many green and blue variation I can't select the area I need.
I thought of changing the color of logo so that it looks refined but green color signifies travel and i can't think of using any other color. It would have been easy to pick other color. For me Green is God. I must use that only. I also need to encorporate small road in it that defines journey to infinity. This tool use to work well before. It's giving me problem for the first time. Please help.

I have managed to do this... Snap to grid helped a lot ! Thank you.. I will now start learning all these things one by and and slowly slowly. Thank you so much Trevor !!!

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Fig. 1
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