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Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage.
KAKUZO OKAKURA, Book of Tea
Tea is a work of art and needs a master hand to bring out its noblest qualities. We have good and bad teas, as we have good and bad paintings -- generally the latter.
KAKUZO OKAKURA, Book of Tea
The Philosophy of Tea is not mere aestheticism ... for it expresses conjointly with ethics and religion our whole point of view about man and nature. It is hygiene, for it enforces cleanliness; it is economics, for it shows comfort in simplicity rather than in the complex and costly; it is moral geometry, inasmuch as it defines our sense of proportion to the universe.
KAKUZO OKAKURA, Book of Tea
Tea is more than an idealization of the form of drinking, it is a religion of the art of life.
KAKUZO OKAKURA, Book of Tea
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