The Blue Hour: A Celebration of Nature's Rarest Color
Jan 27, 2021-- "Blue, Rebecca Solnit wrote in one of humanitys most beautiful reflections on our planets primary hue, is the color of solitude and of desire, the color of there seen from here the color of longing for the distances you never arrive in, for the blue world, a world of many blues a pioneering 19th-century nomenclature of colors listed eleven kinds of blue, in hues as varied as the color of the flax-flower and the throat of the blue titmouse and the stamina of a certain species of anemone. Darwin took this guide with him on The Beagle in order to better describe what he saw. We name in order to see better and apprehend only what we know how to name, how to think about." Maria Popova shares more in this lovely exploration of 'The Blue Hour', a book by French author, illustrator Isabelle Simler. (8082 reads)
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