“Margaret Fuller was already a celebrity, travelling around the world. Emerson, who was the axis around which that whole community turned, just didn't like Fourier's ideas very much. He thought it was all too rigid and programmatic. He said, "Fourier had skipped no fact but one, namely life." He thought it was an inhumane system - the day is scheduled too precisely. He didn't think it would work, and he was right.”
![“I think that surprisingly few people right now know much about [Buckminster] Fuller beyond the few really iconic points. He invented the geodesic dome and he coined the term "spaceship earth" and that's pretty much the extent of what people who even have heard of him know. And I'm struck by how…” quote by Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0b3/jonathon-keats-10822_buckminster-fuller_i-think-that-surprisingly-few-people-rig_1416599.jpg)
![“To me, the reason to write about [Buckminster] Fuller is because I think that he has ideas that are incredibly pertinent.” quote by Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4f9/jonathon-keats-10822_buckminster-fuller_to-me-the-reason-to-write-about-buckmins_1132147.jpg)
![“The interesting thing writing about [Buckminster] Fuller is really to attempt to resurrect all of that and to do so for a new generation that has not grown up with him.” quote by Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/310/jonathon-keats-10822_buckminster-fuller_the-interesting-thing-writing-about-buck_3168700.jpg)
![“Utopian fiction is really boring. I had to read a lot of it, and it's not that much fun. But they're fascinating to me as historical documents. Cabet [Icaria's founder and author of the utopian novel, Travels in Icaria], is writing in the 1830s, and his idea of the perfect society reveals a lot…” quote by Christine Jennings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ac0/christine-jennings-20527_book_utopian-fiction-is-really-boring-i-had-t_68118.jpg)
![“They [Oneida people] didn't want to fix problems one at a time. If someone invited them to a feminist convention, their answer would have been, 'In the new world women will have total equality, so lets spend our energy creating that whole new world.' And to their credit, the women at Oneida…” quote by Christine Jennings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a98/christine-jennings-20527_answers_they-oneida-people-didn-t-want-to-fix-pr_1079802.jpg)
