![]() That color - its chromatic science and its cultural symbology - is what Ellen Meloy (June 21, 1946–November 4, 2004) explores in The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky ( public library). But the color of that dot “suspended in a sunbeam” is rather between blue and green: a pixel of turquoise. ![]() ![]() The color of life, the actual chromatic hue that makes our rocky planet a living world, is somewhere between the blue of water and the green of land - when Carl Sagan looked at the grainy Voyager photograph of Earth seen from the far reaches of the Solar System for the very first time, he famously eulogized our Pale Blue Dot. “The deep blue water of the open sea far from land is the color of emptiness and barrenness the green water of the coastal areas, with all its varying hues, is the color of life,” Rachel Carson wrote as she illuminated the science and splendor of the marine spectrum, enriching the literary canon of history’s most beautiful meditations on the color blue. ![]()
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