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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERTombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.
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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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…primarily the individual is going to study at home.
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Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
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It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.
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I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
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Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don’t know whether or not we know that we don’t know it.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Our power is in our ability to decide.
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You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.
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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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It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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