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Quotations by R. Buckminster Fuller
© 2007    Richard J. Chandler      Saint Cloud, MN

As a young child, this American visionary and inventor of the geodesic dome often made things from materials he found in the woods, sometimes making his own tools as well.  A quote from Buckminster Fuller.

“When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.”

                         - Buckminster Fuller  (1895-1983)

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An American visionary, poet, and architect, Buckminster Fuller devoted his life to the philosophical question, “Does humanity have a chance to survive successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?” This stamp, based on an original painting by Boris Artzybasheff (1899-1965), first appeared on the cover of Time Magazine in on January 10th 1964.

“You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever a mystery to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all your experience to the highest advantage of others.”

- R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)

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The visionary architect and environmentalist R. Buckminster Fuller devoted his life to figuring our how humans could successfully live on “spaceship earth,” a phrase he invented and used in his book, ‘An Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth’.

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

- R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)

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Al Gore, the most prominent force behind raising environmental awareness about the global warming crisis, introduced this quotation of R. Buckminster Fuller by saying it is time for … “humankind to begin a three-year campaign to make everyone on our planet aware of how we can solve the climate crisis in time to avoid catastrophe. Individuals must be a part of the solution.”

“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?”

- R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)

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The following quote, by perhaps the most leading edge environmentalist, begs this question… ‘Even when we do know the right way to treat our planet, why don’t we do so?

“The most important fact about Spaceship Earth: an instruction book didn’t come with it.”

- R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)

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From the inventor of the geodesic dome and the originator of the concept, 'Spaceship Earth', R. Buckminster Fuller. Many of the environmental ideas that we are only now beginning to embrace were first developed by this modern day renaissance man over 80 years ago.

"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 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. It has to be everybody or nobody."

- R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)

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