I was completely astonished by the beauty of nature. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings.

Albert Hofmann
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The color of the world is created by light that has been refracted by microscopic objects in the atmosphere. The colors we see are not natural, but are artificial. A painter can change the colors in his work, but he cannot alter the colors in the world unless he paints it differently.

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