Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

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

—R. Buckminster Fuller

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

—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

Love is metaphysical gravity.

—R. Buckminster Fuller

There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.

—Edouard Manet

Sound is the vocabulary of nature.

—Pierre Schaeffer

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

—Henry David Thoreau

Nature's far too subtle to repeat herself.

—Paul Muni

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on — have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear — what remains? Nature remains.

—William Wadsworth