People have feet. Trees have roots.
People have feet. Trees have roots.
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When asked why so many of his housing designs were portable.
Other Buckminster Fuller Quotes
- If the success or failure of this planet, and of human beings, depended on how I am and what I do, how would I be? What would I do? - View Quote Details on If the success or failure of this planet, and of…
- We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief…. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding. Specialization has bred feelings of isolation, futility, and confusion in individuals. It has also resulted in the individual’s leaving responsibility for thinking and social action to others. Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war. - View Quote Details on We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends…
- You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. - View Quote Details on You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To…
- Integrity of the individual is what we’re being judged for and if we are not passing that examination, we don’t really have the guts, we’ll blow ourselves up. It will be all over. I think it’s all the difference in the world. - View Quote Details on Integrity of the individual is what we’re being judged for…
- Love is metaphysical gravity. - View Quote Details on Love is metaphysical gravity.
- We are on a spaceship; a beautiful one. It took billions of years to develop. We’re not going to get another. Now, how do we make this spaceship work? - View Quote Details on We are on a spaceship; a beautiful one. It took…
- on first priority / in design consideration / is the full realization / of individual potential / in order to reach the second derivative– / full realization for all individuals - View Quote Details on on first priority / in design consideration / is the…
- Corporations are neither physical nor metaphysical phenomena. They are socioeconomic ploys — legally enacted game-playing — agreed upon only between overwhelmingly powerful socioeconomic individuals and by them imposed upon human society and its all unwitting members. - View Quote Details on Corporations are neither physical nor metaphysical phenomena. They are socioeconomic…
- Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction. - View Quote Details on Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is…
- When blimp photographs are taken of giant stadia packed full of rock-concert or football fans, we get an idea of what 100,000 people look like. We all think of Hiroshima as the worst single killing of humans by humans. That was about a 75,000-capacity-coliseum-full. Each day of each year, year after year, a 75,000-capacity-stadiumfull of around-the-world humans perish from starvation or its side effects, despite an annual average 5-percent world food-production overage of the amount of food adequate for the total world’s population. This daily kill of innocents dwarfs the awful Auschwitz killing. - View Quote Details on When blimp photographs are taken of giant stadia packed full…
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