On Becoming Generative Quotes

“An encounter with generosity can remind us that life always overflows our attempts to reduce it to a commodity or a transaction—because it is a gift.”
― Makoto Fuijmura, On Becoming Generative: An Introduction to Culture Care

“Generative paths lead to resourcefulness, patience, and general creativity in all of life. They lead to cultural—and human—thriving.”
― Makoto Fuijmura, On Becoming Generative: An Introduction to Culture Care

“Generative thinking can inspire us to work within a vision for culture that is expressed in centuries and millennia rather than quarters, seasons, or fashions.”
― Makoto Fuijmura, On Becoming Generative: An Introduction to Culture Care

“Life and beauty are gratuitous in the best senses of that word.”
― Makoto Fuijmura, On Becoming Generative: An Introduction to Culture Care

“bouquets of flowers into a culture bereft of beauty.”
― Makoto Fuijmura, On Becoming Generative: An Introduction to Culture Care