Color Vision Deficiency

Famous quotes containing the words color, vision and/or deficiency:

    “All our Concord waters have two colors at least; one when viewed at a distance, and another, more proper, close at hand.... Walden is blue at one time and green at another, even from the same point of view. Lying between the earth and the heavens, it partakes of the color of both.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Our star was brighter perhaps when it had water in it.
    Now there is no question even of that, but only
    Of holding on to the hard earth so as not to get thrown off,
    With an occasional dream, a vision ...”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.”
    —Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)