The Horizon May Be Discerned As The Line Separating The Lighter Sky Above The Water.

…“ …. a sharp line demarking the light grey of the sky and the darker grey of the water.
…Kitto had more to say about this areté of the ancient Greeks. "When we meet areté in Plato," he said, "we translate it ‘virtue’ and consequently miss all the flavour of it. ‘Virtue,’ at least in modern English, is almost entirely a moral word; areté, on the other hand, is used indifferently in all the categories, and simply means excellence." …. “
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…“ Areté implies a respect for the wholeness or oneness of life, and a consequent dislike of specialization. It implies a contempt for efficiency—or rather a much higher idea of efficiency, an efficiency which exists not in one department of life but in life itself.” (Cont Next)

Five miles south of Orick, CA. The water is darker than the sky because the water, stirred up by surf, has a heavy burden of darker silt and organic matter. Clearly ‘murkier’ than even the foggy air!
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