"Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that 
will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility."

- Saint Augustine, Latin philosopher and theologian from Roman Africa.









NYC high rise building.

“It is because humanity has never known where it was 

going that it has been able to find its way.” 

Oscar Wilde

[Stairs from a house in Kamiuma, designed by Kiyonobu Nakagame & Associates]