¶ Tree
Index Entry
Tree:
“I looked on a tree as beautiful when I was a little child. Now I can see why that tree is designed the way it is. As a comprehensive anticipatory design scientist I understand why that tree is there, what its relation to me is. I really feel it too. It’s not something superficial to draw a picture of. I really feel how it’s handling the wind and the rain and what it’s doing. It’s a beautiful mechanism. Fantastic technology. You try to pick up a bucket of water, hold it out at arm’s length. Suppose it weighs 50 pounds. You can’t hold 50 pounds horizontally. And this tree is holding out a branch that weighs five tons-- horizontally. And it’s able to handle a hurricane and not get into trouble, and with all those leaves. Quite a piece of design. And I know exactly how it’s done. I began to design like that.”
¶ Citations
- Rasa Gustatitis quoting RBF, in WHOLLY ROUND, (H,R&W, NY), p. 160, Feb’73
