Some 57 years later he wistfully remembered the regret at leaving the eternal snows of the Jungfrau and the sharp outline of the pyramid-shaped Silberhorn peak against the dark blue of the sky.
"We are living in the lap of luxury here, " he said, gesturing to the blue sky and the magnificent city skyline.
Cotopaxi, with its white cone brilliant against the blue sky, he found the most beautiful of all.
The water reflected the gray-blue of the darkening sky, and the lights of the water-pumping stations had come on, making them look like a line of floating gazebos.
"Nobody in the history of mankind has ever experienced the Earth as a pale, insignificant blue dot in the sky, " he said.
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The royal blue sky glared down on the grey brittlebush, and the heat was searing.
The baked brown cliffs and the clear blue sky were joined by the tinge of green on the sandstone rocks for the first time, in my memory.
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The bright yellows of the recently harvested corncobs and the bright blue Chinese sky contrast sharply with the grays, browns and smudged greens of the flat, bleak, open countryside.
I'm rested and relaxed after two days at this wellness-lite resort in the desert two hours east of San Diego--an effect of the vast saturated-blue sky, the 650, 000 acres of nature preserve all around, that cushy bed in my guest room, and, best of all, the laid-back approach to the mindfulness mission.
Then go Beyond the Edge in Blue Sky Basin, the meadows and glades where patches of trees on the runs create more of a backcountry vibe.
As he says this, the camera pans upwards to show an aircraft carving a line across the clear blue sky, a reference to both the double standards of Larson's patriotism and the secret that drives him on.
His formula involves adding two main variables: the dealership's assets minus overall debt (also called "net tangible book value"), plus what Hall calls the "blue sky" value, equal to the dealer's pretax income times some multiple between one and six, depending on the health of the operation.
This refraction eliminates both the red end of the spectrum (red light is not bent enough by the air layer to form part of the second image) and the blue frequencies (which are scattered away: this selective scattering is why the sky is blue).
"Vlad talks about all the blue-sky stuff, " Severson says, affectionately.
Maybe the most appropriate salute to the survivors came when the last flying Lancaster bomber trundled heavily through the blue sky over Green Park and dropped thousands of poppies.
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It had then turned into Luc's 20% project - the blue sky ideas Google engineers are encouraged to work on for a fifth of their time - and had been launched in five US cities in 2007.
The blue layer of sky had given way now and was turning dark like the rest.
But if you hit one of those beautiful winter days when the sea is calm and the sky is blue, continue along the coast path for about two miles until it curves into the hidden bay and tiny old harbour of Lamorna Cove.
Because the discussion regarding materiality in a federal securities fraud action are also applicable in the main to fraud claims alleged under the common law, the state blue sky laws, or other anti-fraud federal and state statutes, the discussion of materiality will not treat the latter separately.
The room has green lights and screens showing a blue sky which Marcus told the prince "gets rid of all the memories of what's happening".
Like errant knights we dismount our Jeep and marvel at the citadels and castles blazing against the blue-marguerite sky.
But even at this stage it feels a little too blue-sky for the very earthbound arena of global logistics.
One night of gun-blue sky, the temperature went down to nine degrees.
But for tasks that require a little bit of creativity, we seem to benefit from high ceilings, lots of windows and bright blue walls that match the sky.
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With the bright blue sky and warm autumn sun, for a bizarre moment I remember thinking it looked more like a scene from a college brochure than the evacuation of a building under attack.
" Jesse Nichols, a librarian on the Senate Finance Committee and the first black appointed to a clerical position in the Senate, recalled that "Senator Gore used to come in and out of the clear blue sky he would say, 'Jesse, bring me a Coca-Cola.
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"There were 30 of us standing in the blue water, watching the snow come from the sky while discussing the values of the company, " said Gudmundsson.
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