Beauty Quote by William McDonough

“We celebrate the cherry tree not for its efficiency but for its effectiveness - and for its beauty. Its materials are in constant flow, and all those thousands of useless cherry blossoms look gorgeous. Then they fall to the ground and become soil again, so there's no problem”

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Honor commerce as the engine of change.

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You don't filter smokestacks or water. Instead, you put the filter in your head and design the problem out of existence.

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If design is the first signal of human intention.

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You need that same creative force that exists in a building like Disney [Walt Disney Concert Hall] to actually tackle that most prosaic of…

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And to use something as elegant as a tree? Imagine this design assignment: Design something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen, distills water,…

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I'd so much rather have exciting architecture that causes one to stop, breathe, and reflect on the potential of the human mind, the craft,…

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To eliminate the concept of waste means to design things-products, packaging, and systems-from the very beginning on the understanding that waste does not exist.

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We are not a green standard, we are a quality standard. We're different, we're multi dimensional.

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Don't get me wrong: I love nuclear energy! It's just that I prefer fusion to fission. And it just so happens that there's an…

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If anybody here has trouble with the concept of design humility, reflect on this: It took us 5,000 years to put wheels on our luggage.

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The problem I have with carbon as a bad thing issue, is that people go out and say they want to be zero carbon.…

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Call her beautiful a million times and she won't believe you. Call her ugly once, and she will never forget it.

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