R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
Integrity is the essence of everything successful. Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease. Love is metaphysical gravity. Man knows so much and does so little. Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't. My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted. Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment. Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable. Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it. Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern. People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things. Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value. Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune. Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices. Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering. Tension is the great integrity. The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual. The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it. There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
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