Richard Ballantine Professions : Writer Born : July 25, 1940 Died : May 29, 2013 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Richard Ballantine The bicycle is its own best argument. You just get a bike, try it; start going with the thing and using it as it suits you. It'll grow and it gets better and better and better. Richard Ballantine suits-you get-better trying Just as the ideal of classic Greek culture was the most perfect harmony of mind and body, so a human and a bicycle are the perfect synthesis of body and machine. Richard Ballantine greek perfect mind Possibly the tragedy of the bicycle is that it was invented too close in time to the car. In the historical scheme, pedal power hardly got under way before the combustion engine appeared and, not only took over the roads, but changed our view of machines. We've forgotten that pedal power is a potent form of energy. Richard Ballantine car historical views A human and a bicycle are the perfect synthesis of body and machine. Richard Ballantine machines synthesis perfect Similar Authors Ihab Hassan writer Ingmar Bergman writer Isabella Bird writer Ivan E. Coyote writer Al Feldstein writer Bert Sugar writer All Authors
