Jerry Harkins

Pete Seeger tells a story about a king who asked his wise men to reduce all the world's knowledge and wisdom to a single book he could use to educate his son. It took them nearly a year and, when they were done, the king challenged them to distill the book down to a single sentence. Five years of intense labor and constant debate followed until, at last, the wise men were able to agree on the sentence, "This too shall pass." Again the king sent them back to the academy. "Find me," he commanded, "the single word my son can live by, the irreducible essence of everything we know." Ten years passed. At length, the sages, old, gray and worn with disputation, returned. "Sire," said their leader, "the one word at the heart of all wisdom, is 'maybe.'"

松井孝典

我々がいようがいまいが、どんなに環境を壊そうが、いられなくなるのは我々だけであって、地球にとっては全然問題ない。生物圏だって完全に絶滅するなんてことはない。過去のもっとすごい環境変化にも生物圏は生き残っているわけだから。
我々が生物圏の心配をしたり、地球のことを心配するというのは、我々の傲慢さの反映ですね。我々がすべてを支配しているんだと思い込んでる。

Charles Lindbergh

• Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values… God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.
• To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
• In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
• Isn’t it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?
• Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.
• It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you have wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane.
• Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.

加藤周一

細部は全体から独立してそれ自身の形態と機能を主張する。それが非相称的美学の背景にある世界観であろう。その世界観を時間の軸に沿ってもれば「今」の強調であり、空間の面からみれば「ここ」、すなわち眼前の、私が今居る場所への集中である。時間および空間の全体を意識し、構造化しようとする立場に立てば、相称的美学が成り立つ。相称性は全体の形態の一つだからである。時空間の「今＝ここ」主義を前提とすれば、それ自身として完結した部分の洗練へ向うだろう。