R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

The earth is the only home that any of us have—so far, anyway.

The planet will adapt to anything. Maybe we should start to use the heart and the brain that we've been given to organize ourselves. Because if we keep screwing up things, we may be just passing by in the history of the planet.

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

Right now, we don't have a very good relation with creation.

We're not environmentally doing very good things to this planet, and we might not be around too long.

Humanity is consuming the resources of the earth and life in an excessive and disordered way, forgetting the earth's own needs

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

Awareness is key. In the absence of information, none of us know what is happening and what could be jeopardizing our health, our water supply, and our planet.

I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.

For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands.

It was once religion which told us that we are all sinners because of original sin. It is now the ecology of our planet which pronounces us all to be sinners because of the excessive exploits of human inventiveness.

You don't live on the Earth you want, you live on the Earth you have.

Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.

Instead of passing on choppy waters to the next generation, we should endeavor to leave them a calmer sea.

Because we're not in harmony with the environment, we're destroying the environment that supports us.

The images of Earth's delicate biosphere, contrasting with the sterile moonscape where the astronauts left their footsteps, have become iconic for environmentalists: these may indeed be the Apollo programme's most enduring legacy.

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

I think it's important to be kind to the world before it disappears if we don't take care of it.

Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.

Environmentalism is a way of seeing our place within the biosphere.

We're busily wrecking the chances for future generations at a rapid rate of knots by not recognizing the damage we're doing to the natural environment, bearing in mind that this is the only planet that we know has any life on it.

Genetic design is something we can use to fight the lack of sustainability we humans are forcing on the earth's environment.

If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them?

Fundamentally, if you look at where the environmental issues are coming from, it's all because of humans and our impact on the environment, so while it's true that one individual is not going to sufficiently fix the environment, it is a necessary thing.

The planet will survive. Whether we get to be here and enjoy it, or enjoy life as we've known it, is what's questionable.