Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERA proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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Tension is the great integrity.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn’t.
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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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