Air Quote by Buzz Aldrin

The moon is essentially gray, no color. It looks like plaster of Paris, like dirty beach sand with lots of footprints in it.

— Anonymous

The moon is essentially gray, no color; looks like plaster of Paris or sort of a grayish beach sand.

— Jim Lovell

The Moon is essentially gray - no color - looks like plaster of paris - soft of gray sand.

— Jim Lovell

The [Moon] surface is fine and powdery. I can kick it up loosely with my toe. It does adhere in fine layers like powdered…

— Neil Armstrong

The surface of the Moon is not smooth, uniform, and precisely spherical as a great number of philosophers believe it to be, but is…

— Galileo Galilei

Viewed from the distance of the moon, the astonishing thing about the earth, catching the breath, is that it is alive. The photographs show…

— Lewis Thomas

The moon is bland in color. I call it shades of gray. You know, the only color we see is what we bring or…

— Anonymous

“I have heard people bewailing man's landing on the moon, as though before it was touched by an astronaut's foot it was made of…

— Diana Athill

The Moon is a white strange world, great, white, soft-seeming globe in the night sky, and what she actually communicates to me across space…

— D. H. Lawrence

Armstrong described the lunar surface as 'beautiful.' I thought to myself, 'It's not really beautiful. It's magnificent that we're here, but what a desolate…

— Buzz Aldrin

Under your skin the moon is alive.

— Pablo Neruda

The moon is bleached as white as wool, And just dropping under; Every star is gone but three, And they hang far asunder,-- There's…

— Jean Ingelow