“What we're talking about is the endless, gullible elevation of necessary levels of comfort and status and everything else at the complete expense of all around us. It's going to take us a long time to learn how to climb down a little bit from the heights on which we have put ourselves.” LittlesLongBitsLevelsTalkingComfortLittle BitLong TimeEndlessHeightClimbsExpensesConsumerismOverconsumptionElevationGullible Author:Bill McKibben
“Elegance and comfort are not incompatible, and whoever maintains the contrary simply doesn't know what he's talking about” KnowsTalkingFashionComfortComfortableShoesContraryEleganceMaintainingCompatibleFashion Designer Book:Salvatore Ferragamo, the art of the shoe, 1927-1960 Source: Salvatore Ferragamo, the art of the shoe, 1927-1960
“The best talk is artless, the talk of people trying to reassure or comfort themselves, women in the sun, grouped around baby carriages, talking about their weeks in the hospital or the way meat has gone up, or men in saloons, talking to combat the loneliness everyone feels.” PeopleMenWayFeelsTryingTalkingSunGoneWeekLonelinessBabyComfortMeatHospitalsCombatCarriagesSaloons Book:My Ears Are Bent Source: My Ears Are Bent