R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

…trees are made of air, primarily. When they are burned, they go back to air, and in the flaming heat is released the flaming heat of the Sun which was bound in to convert the air into tree. And in the ash is the small remnant of the part which did not come from air, that came from the solid earth, instead.

A spark can become a flame, a flame a fire.

The sun gives spirit and life to the plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.

The most tangible of all visible mysteries - fire.

The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.

Is not Fire a Body heated so hot as to emit Light copiously? For what else is a red hot Iron than Fire? And what else is a burning Coal than red hot Wood?

At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.

The earth has received the embrace of the sun and we shall see the results of that love.

What most people know but don't realize they know is that the world is almost entirely solar-powered already. If the sun wasn't there, we'd be a frozen ice ball at three degrees Kelvin, and the sun powers the entire system of precipitation. The whole ecosystem is solar-powered.

The sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away

The light from the sun breaks through space, bathing our planet as it encircles the sun with life-giving warmth and light. Without the sun, there could be no life on this planet; it would be forever barren, cold, and dark.

Sun is the reason And the world it will bloom 'Cause sun lights the sky And the sun lights the moon

(On the energy radiated by the Sun) It's four hundred million million million million watts. That is a million times the power consumption of the United States every year, radiated in one second, and we worked that out by using some water, a thermometer, a tin, and an umbrella. And that's why I love physics.

Wood feeds the fire which burns it.

Khadi is the sun of the village solar system.

Spontaneous combustion IS a form of harm, Mr. D," Chiron put in.

The sun is the source of all energy on planet Earth and we cannot experiment with our only energy source.

Just think, that man can claim a slice of the sun.

We're physically part of the sun. The sun gives us energy, creates our world.

It is sunlight in modified form which turns all the windmills and water wheels and the machinery which they drive. It is the energy derived from coal and petroleum (fossil sunlight) which propels our steam and gas engines, our locomotives and automobiles. ... Food is simply sunlight in cold storage.

We have this handy fusion reactor in the sky called the sun, you don't have to do anything, it just works. It shows up every day.

But, for as cold and wretched as it looks, the sun has not forsaken it. He has only drawn away from it a little, for good reasons, one of which is that we may learn that we cannot do without him.

Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, And left the flushed print in a poppy there: Like a yawn of fire from the grass it came, And the fanning wind puffed it to flapping flame. With burnt mouth red like a lion's it drank The blood of the sun as he slaughtered sank, And dipped its cup in the purpurate shine When the eastern conduits ran with wine.

The sun - my almighty physician.

Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.