There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
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If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
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For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard – despite decreasing resources – cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.
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All their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.
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People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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Doing more with less.
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It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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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.
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We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth….
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There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn’t enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don’t have enough.
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We are here as local information harvesters, local problem-solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe. The fact that we get away from physical problems doesn’t mean we go away from problems. The problems are really rarely physical.
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The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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