The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERPollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.
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It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.
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Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment…. Humanity is in ‘final exam’ as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe.
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Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
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I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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I look for what needs to be done
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Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.
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