Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERRashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Tension is the great integrity.
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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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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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Each one of us could make the difference.
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go.
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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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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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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
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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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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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Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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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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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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