There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you i... -R. Buckminster Fuller

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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

R. Buckminster Fuller , Inventor
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R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes to Explore

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience....
How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else....
War is the ultimate tool of politics....
Either war is obsolete, or men are....
God is a verb, not a noun....
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it....
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 comm...
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 str...
Tension is the great integrity....
By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties....

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I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something; I think that's human nature....
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping o...
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God....
For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all....
The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also....
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature....
Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fa...
To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and...
To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural proce...
Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake....