Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThere 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.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars’ worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs.
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We speak erroneously of “artificial” materials, “synthetics”, and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is “man-made”, ergo artificial.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
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I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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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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Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
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We are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.
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Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession – not conscious planning – provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.
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To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
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… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
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