435 Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller

Specialization is in fact only a fancy form of slavery wherein the ‘expert’ is fooled into accepting a slavery by making him feel that he in turn is a socially and culturally preferred-ergo, highly secure-lifelong position.

Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.

By the time you are 88 years old, you “have consumed 300 tons of food, air and water.”

Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession – not conscious planning – provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.

Everything you’ve learned in school as “obvious” becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe.

Universe to each must be All that is, including me. Environment in turn must be All that is, excepting me.

You can’t learn less.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.

History’s political and economic power structures have always abhorred ‘idle people’ as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.