Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERRight now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERHumanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLEROur little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERPollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERGeodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous–tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERI live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERHistory’s political and economic power structures have always abhorred ‘idle people’ as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERTrue democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect’s function in universe.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER…primarily the individual is going to study at home.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERNinety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to “make it” economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIf you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERDon’t attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity’s original, innate capabilities to become successful.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER