R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a 'higher standard of living than any have ever known.' It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  War, Technology, Selfishness

  "Critical Path". Book by Buckminster Fuller, 1981.

• 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

  Success, Fate, Diversity

  R. Buckminster Fuller “World Game Series: Document 1”, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

• Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life's challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Inspirational, Life, Determination

• I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Verbs, Nouns, Earth

  "I Seem to Be a Verb". Book by Buckminster Fuller, 1970.

• Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance. We know now what we could never have known before - that we now have the option for all humanity to make it successfully on this planet in this lifetime. Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Blessed, Thinking, Technology

• Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Motivational, Wisdom, Book

  Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth ch. 4 (1969)

• . . . So I vowed to keep myself alive, but only if I would never use me again for just me - each one of us is born of two, and we really belong to each other. I vowed to do my own thinking, instead of trying to accommodate everyone else's opinion, credo's and theories. I vowed to apply my inventory of experiences to the solving of problems that affect everyone aboard planet Earth.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Thinking, Two, Justice

• I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Earth, Spaceships, Passengers

  1969 Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, ch.1.

• Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Needs, Earth, Firsts

• Nature does have manure and she does have roots as well as blossoms, and you can't hate the manure and blame the roots for not being blossoms.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Nature, Hate, Garden

• The most important thing to teach your children is that the sun does not rise and set. It is the Earth that revolves around the sun. Then teach them the concepts of North, South, East and West, and that they relate to where they happen to be on the planet's surface at that time. Everything else will follow.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Children, Important, Doe

• We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth.... 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.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Peace, Fate, Ubuntu

• Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Earth, Coping, Spaceships

  R. Buckminster Fuller (2008). “Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth”, p.83, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

• We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Wisdom, War, Support

  R. Buckminster Fuller “Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity”, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

• The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Inspirational, Space, Environmental

• Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Four, Boards, Earth

• Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Humanity, Doe, Earth

• Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Nature, Animal, Space

  R. Buckminster Fuller (2008). “Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth”, p.85, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

• For at least 2,000,000 years men have been reproducing and multiplying on a little automated spaceship called earth.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Men, Moon, Years

  "The Prospect for Humanity," Saturday Review, 29 Aug. 1964

• The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Book, Important, Earth

• There is an inherently minimum set of essential concepts and current information, cognizance of which could lead to our operating our planet Earth to the lasting satisfaction and health of all humanity.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Humanity, Information, Satisfaction

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking”, p.25, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

• Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Space, Earth, Sun

• Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.... Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Eight, Years, Two

  "Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth". Book by Buckminster Fuller, 1963.

• Windmills installed around the world converting their direct current into alternating current and feeding the electric energy into the world network can harvest the planet Earth's prime daily energy income source-the wind--and adequately supply all the world's energy needs

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Wind, Energy, Income

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