James Bertolino famous quotes

We need not want what we are the middle of.
-- James Bertolino

#Simple #Needs #Want

May your love be firm, and may your dream of life together be a river between two shores - by day bathed in sunlight, and by night illuminated from within. May the heron carry news of you to the heavens, and the salmon bring the sea's blue grace. May your twin thoughts spiral upward like leafy vines, like fiddle strings in the wind, and be as noble as the Douglas fir. May you never find yourselves back to back without love pulling you around into each other's arms.
-- James Bertolino

#Dream #Night #Love Is

To survive, our minds must taste redwood, and agate, octopi, bat, and in the bat's mouth, insect. It's hard to think like a planet, but we've got to try.
-- James Bertolino

#Thinking #Mind #Trying

Music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple.

It must be a balance in everything we do, not too much of everything, keep it simple, not complicated.

It struck me that our history is contained in the home we live in, that we are shaped by the ability of these simple structures to resist being defiled

The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.

It is my plan to create a city that is direct and simple... To leave out all that is ugly, to eliminate the unnecessary, and to give Florida and the nation a resort city as perfect as study and ideals can make it.

Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.

Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn't know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first.

You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.

The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.

Our society covers these problems with a veil. All I want is an open discussion