If you change the environment, you change the people.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIf you change the environment, you change the people.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERGold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERTechnologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThere are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThere is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERGeodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous–tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIf humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERI look for what needs to be done
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIf we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERAll children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWhen I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThere is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERAmerican labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERFreeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
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