White

White

White is the color of pure snow or milk. It is the color of light that contains all of the wavelengths of the visible spectrum without absorption. It is the opposite of black.

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Famous quotes containing the word white:

    “Why do we then shun death with anxious strife?
    If Light can thus deceive, wherefore not Life?”
    —Joseph Blanco White (1775–1841)

    “The man whose heart is as warm as a hanky soaked in ethyl chloride.”
    —Edmund White (b. 1940)

    “It was the pine alone, chiefly the white pine, that had tempted any but the hunter to precede us on this route.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)