Why is it that an iron nail sinks as soon as it hits the water, but an iron ship which
is millions of times heavier happily floats across the widths and depths of the world's oceans?
Perhaps it is because the ship would be one of the most useless things if what you really needed was the ability to join two boards together?

Even the Earth's gravitational pull is weaker than the idea of a human being. Even the heaviest objects can stay above the clouds. The two banks of a river can be joined by something which brings joy to people because of its beauty, something that will last for centuries and generations to come. We attach a mission to ordinary materials, and that mission is dictated by our needs. Sometimes we need things that are of practical use. Sometimes we need a beautiful and skilfully shaped environment in which to exist.

The balance between an object's functionality and beauty is at the root of the world's own construction. There is no pointless beauty in the world, there are simply wonderfully functioning constructions for which nature has found the most beautiful and most appropriate form. It should go without saying that the basic values which we use in our work are based on that very principle.