• Today is New Year's Day. The following is from Antoine de Sainte Exupéry, the French aviator::
"Have you ever thought, not only about the airplane but whatever man builds, that all of man's industrial efforts, all his computations and calculations, all the nights spent working over draughts and blueprints, invariably culminate in the production of a thing whose sole and guiding principle is the ultimate principle of simplicity?...
It is as if there were a natural law which ordained that to achieve this end, to refine the curve of a piece of furniture, or a ship's keel, or the fuselage of an airplane, until gradually it partakes of the elementary purity of the curve of the human breast or shoulder, there must be experimentation of several generations of craftsmen. In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness."
May you all have a simple, pure and perfect new year.
(Quote and Picture Via Patagonia)
© 2009 Apartment Therapy
What a wonderful quote - and one perfectly in tune with my own thoughts today as I plan all the hard work necessary to finish my giant cure so I can get on with enjoying the simple life.
Happy New Year, everyone!
happy 2007!
how's your baby :)