“what I want to write about today is the sea. It contains so many colors. Silver at dawn, green at noon, dark blue in the evening. Sometimes it looks almost red. Or it will turn the color of old coins. Right now the shadows of clouds are dragging across it, and patches of sunlight are touching down everywhere. White strings of gulls drag over it like beads.
It is my favorite thing, I think, that I have ever seen. Sometimes I catch myself staring at it and forget my duties. It seems big enough to contain everything anyone could ever feel.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
Still feeling quite rough, so I have to make this brief. Was flipping back through All the Light We Cannot See and found this beautiful quote.
And this one- “What do we call visible light? We call it color. But the electromagnetic spectrum runs to zero in one direction and infinity in the other, so really, children, mathematically, all of light is invisible.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
The book is really about all the things that are invisible to us that surround us.
Thankfully, we can see some things. Our eyes can perceive the way light plays on water. I can't think of a more soothing thing to reflect upon. At midnight hole, the light and water create an emerald pool, in Maine, the tiny flecks of star light reflect perfectly off of the water at night creating this dizzying feeling of smallness in the face of something infinite. I have a hundred more examples but feel too rough to keep my eyes open any longer.
It is my favorite thing, I think, that I have ever seen. Sometimes I catch myself staring at it and forget my duties. It seems big enough to contain everything anyone could ever feel.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
Still feeling quite rough, so I have to make this brief. Was flipping back through All the Light We Cannot See and found this beautiful quote.
And this one- “What do we call visible light? We call it color. But the electromagnetic spectrum runs to zero in one direction and infinity in the other, so really, children, mathematically, all of light is invisible.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
The book is really about all the things that are invisible to us that surround us.
Thankfully, we can see some things. Our eyes can perceive the way light plays on water. I can't think of a more soothing thing to reflect upon. At midnight hole, the light and water create an emerald pool, in Maine, the tiny flecks of star light reflect perfectly off of the water at night creating this dizzying feeling of smallness in the face of something infinite. I have a hundred more examples but feel too rough to keep my eyes open any longer.
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