Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often expressed in curves.
Kim Stanley RobinsonIf the amount of money going into the war economy were invested in landscape restoration, we would be in a far more positive position. It may get a little dire before we pull together, but I think when the prosperous nations, and in particular the US, realise they're wrecking their own kids' lives, there will be a mass change in value. It will be a difficult century, and ugly, but I don't think that in the end people are so stupid as to kill themselves off.
Kim Stanley RobinsonOne of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.
Kim Stanley RobinsonBeauty was the promise of happiness, not happiness itself; and the anticipated world was often more rich than anything real.
Kim Stanley Robinson