Blue Evolution: The Architecture of Happiness: Alain De Botton

"Wooden Floors offer analogous pleasures when planks, which once had the pulse of nature flowing through them, submit to the will of the saw and yet when, within each plank, enough signs of life remain to counterpoint the carpenter’s geometry. WE can see eddies, swirls and imperfections, as if the wood were a turbulent but frozen river. Irregularities remain – a knot hasn’t been planed down, or a dip or a buckle that hasn’t been smoothed – and yet these features are gracious rather than threatening, reminders of complexity, for they are neatly contained within a series of calm parallel lines and right angles, fixed in formation by long iron nails."

Published with permission from Alain

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