Explorations 203 We use it and forget it. We use more than 300 pounds per person every year. In Asia, the use of paper is less than 9 pounds a year per person. Every scrap must be saivaged. It must be used again and again if that is possible. A torn magazine is a bonanza. This is serious in the economy and progress of underdeveloped areas. It is hard to make educational progress when paper is not available. It is hard to hold an election if there is inadequate paper upon which to print the ballots. New York Times, Sunday, July 7, ’57 Available North American horse power per person . . 800 Available European horse power per person . . . . . 27 Available Asian horse power per person . . . . . . . 2 Buckminster Fuller We cannot pretend to think for others unless we think with them …“art” involves the whole of the active life, and presupposes the contemplative. The disintegration of a people’s art is the destruction of their life, by which they are reduced to the proletarian status…in the interests of a foreign trader, whose is the profit. We are proud of our museums where we display a way of living that we have made impossible. A.K.Coomaraswamy GAUDIER BRZESKA