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
Related topics: Nature Intention
You uncover what is,
when you get rid of what isn't.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Sometimes I think we're alone.
Sometimes I think we're not.
In either case, the thought is staggering.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
If you are the master, be sometimes blind,
if you are the servant, be sometimes deaf.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Don't fight forces, use them.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely.
It is absolutely touch and go.
Each one of us could make the difference.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
When I am working on a problem,
I never think about beauty,
but when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you
it's going to be a butterfly.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth -
an instruction book didn't come with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
What usually happens in the educational process is
that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed
and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature
they have lost their innate capabilities.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
I look for what needs to be done.
After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Everyone is born a genius,
but the process of living de-geniuses them.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
God is a verb, not a noun.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
I'm not a genius.
I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Ninety-nine percent of who you are
is invisible and untouchable.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth,
and that is that no instruction book came with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Man knows so much and does so little.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Those who play with the devil's toys
will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Love is metaphysical gravity.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Truth is a tendency.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Tombs are the clothes of the dead.
A grave is a plain suit;
while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The earth is like a spaceship
that didn't come with an operating manual.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
How often I found where I should be going
only by setting out for somewhere else.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Faith is much better than belief.
Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
My ideas have undergone a process
of emergence by emergency.
When they are needed badly enough,
they are accepted.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
We are not going to be able
to operate our Spaceship Earth
successfully nor for much longer
unless we see it as a whole spaceship
and our fate as common.
It has to be everybody or nobody.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor,
mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting.
We allow them to disperse because
we've been ignorant of their value.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Tension is the great integrity.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
There is sanctuary in being alone with nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The fog unrolls itself to be a prayer rug to the mountains.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Pay attention to rainbows, and snowflakes,
butterflies and the songs of birds,
the crash of storm-driven waves
and the mirror-surface of a quiet pond.
Let the depths of nature become a part of your innermost being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
Trees are the earth's endless effort
to speak to the listening heaven.
- Rabindranath Tagore
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.
- Khalil Gibran
Treat the earth well.
It was not given to you by your parents,
it was loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors,
we borrow it from our Children.
- Native American traditional
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread,
places to play in and pray in,
where nature may heal and cheer
and give strength to the body and soul.
- John Muir
Flowers are Nature's messengers -
reminders of an unspeakable beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing is evil which is according to nature.
- Marcus Aurelius
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop,
striped and dotted with continents and islands,
flying through space with other stars
all singing and shining together as one,
the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
- John Muir
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me,
that man with all his noble qualities...
still bears in his bodily frame
the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
- Charles Darwin
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Being part of the natural world reminds me
that innocence isn't ever lost completely;
we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.
- Jewel
That sense of sacredness,
that thinking in generations,
must begin with reverence for this earth.
- Paul Tsongas
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
- Anne Frank
Hold on... Joyfully.
Holding-on does not have to be
a desperate teeth-gritting kind of holding-on.
Holding-on can be a joyful
"this is just the nature of Life,
so I may as well enjoy it"
kind of holding-on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nature is my manifestation of God.
I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy,
if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you,
if the simple things in nature have a message you understand,
Rejoice, for your soul is alive.
- Eleanora Duse
Pause to appreciate the beauty around you.
Whether rainbow or butterfly,
mountain or tree, painting or poem -
whether crafted by nature or by a human hand -
beauty adds a magical element to life
that surpasses logic and science.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I will move with the wind.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Every blade of grass has an angel
that bends over it and whispers, "grow! grow!
- Talmud
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
- Henry David Thoreau
Let us honor all children,
and put ourselves into service
preparing a magnificent
earthly home for future generations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What a book a devil's chaplain might write
on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low,
and horribly cruel work of nature!
- Charles Darwin
Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
- Zhuangzi
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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