Fewer, Better Things Quotes

“The philosophy of tea, he wrote, is not mere aestheticism in the ordinary acceptance of the term, for it expresses conjointly with ethics and religion our whole point of view about man and nature. It is hygiene, for it enforces cleanliness; it is economics, for it shows comfort in simplicity rather than in the complex and costly; it is moral geometry, inasmuch as it defines our sense of proportion to the universe.2”
― Glenn Adamson, Fewer, Better Things: The Hidden Wisdom of Objects