History’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 FULLERThe more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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Ninety-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.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Only ten years ago the ‘more with less’ technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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Don’t attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity’s original, innate capabilities to become successful.
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We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.
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Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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I’m utterly convinced that we are all here for one another and that every experience that everyone is having is relevant. It all counts. The Universe is so extraordinarily well designed that it needs all those experiences.
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Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
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When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
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