Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERIf humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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Vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.
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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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When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
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