"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.
