The Blue of Distance

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a bit from "A Field Guide to Getting Lost" by Rebecca Solnit

The world is blue at its edges and in its depths. This blue is the light that got lost. Light at the blue end of the spectrum does not traval the whole distence from the sun to us. It disperses among the molecules of the air, it scatters in water. Water is colorless, shallow water appears to be the color of whatever lies underneath it, but deep water is full of scattered light, the purer the water the deeper the blue. The sky is blue for the same reason, but the blue at the horizon, the blue of land that seems to be dissolving into the sky, is a deeper dreamier, melancholy blue, the blue at the farthest reaches of the places where you see for miles, the blue of distence. This light that does not touch us, does not travel the whole distence, the light that gets lost, gives us the beauty of the world, so much which is in the color blue.