The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don't know whether or not we know that we don't… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
If we design the environment properly, it will permit child and man to develop safely and to behave logically. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
History's political and economic power structures have always abhorred 'idle people' as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass,… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Nature is a totally efficient, self-regenerati ng system. IF we discover the laws that govern this system and live synergistically within them,… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
We must start with scientific fundamentals, and that means with the data of experiments and not with assumed axioms predicated only upon… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
For at least 2,000,000 years men have been reproducing and multiplying on a little automated spaceship called earth. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to copy Nature, I'm trying to find the principles she's using. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Nature does have manure and she does have roots as well as blossoms, and you can't hate the manure and blame the… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
... reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Universe to each must be All that is, including me. Environment in turn must be All that is, excepting me. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
What the scientists have always found by physical experiment was an a priori orderliness of nature, or Universe always operating at an… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
I have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
You can never learn less; you can only learn more. The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
We must start with scientific fundamentals, and that means with the data of experiments and not with assumed axioms predicated only upon the misleading… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
