A Culture of Simplicity

"Wabi sabi is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent and incomplete. It is a beauty of things modest and humble. Wabi-sabi is a nature-based aesthetic paradigm that restores a measure of sanity and proportion to the art of living. Wabi-sabi -- deep, multi-dimensional, elusive -- is the perfect antidote to the pervasively slick, saccharine, corporate style of beauty." 

More in this short excerpt from Leonard Koren's book, "Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers Poets and Philosophers."