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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
Don't fight forces, use them.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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God is a verb, not a noun.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Ninety-nine percent of who you are
is invisible and untouchable.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you
it's going to be a butterfly.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Truth is a tendency.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Everyone is born a genius,
but the process of living de-geniuses them.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
I'm not a genius.
I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Love is metaphysical gravity.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
You uncover what is,
when you get rid of what isn't.
- 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
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
Man knows so much and does so little.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
I look for what needs to be done.
After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
- 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
The earth is like a spaceship
that didn't come with an operating manual.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth -
an instruction book didn't come with it.
- 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
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- 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
If you are the master, be sometimes blind,
if you are the servant, be sometimes deaf.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Those who play with the devil's toys
will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
- 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
Faith is much better than belief.
Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
How often I found where I should be going
only by setting out for somewhere else.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
There is sanctuary in being alone with nature.
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He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
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
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.
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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
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
The fog unrolls itself to be a prayer rug to the mountains.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Flowers are Nature's messengers -
reminders of an unspeakable beauty.
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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
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
- Anne Frank
I will move with the wind.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Nature hates calculators.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
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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
Nature is not human hearted.
- Lao Tzu
Every blade of grass has an angel
that bends over it and whispers, "grow! grow!
- Talmud
Nature never breaks her own laws.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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.
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Nothing is evil which is according to nature.
- Marcus Aurelius
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
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
- William Shakespeare
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
- Henry David Thoreau
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Water is the driving force of all nature.
- Leonardo da Vinci
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Every creature is a word of God.
- Meister Eckhart
Joy in looking and comprehending
is nature's most beautiful gift.
- Albert Einstein
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
- John Muir
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
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
- John Muir
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is my manifestation of God.
I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
- Zhuangzi
When nature has work to be done,
she creates a genius to do it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Thoughts come clearly while one walks.
- Thomas Mann
Let us be silent, that we may
hear the whispers of the gods.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We see God face to face every hour,
and know the savor of Nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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