Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERNow there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Here is God’s purpose – for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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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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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
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One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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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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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn’t.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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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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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Love is metaphysical gravity.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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