By the time you are 88 years old, you "have consumed 300 tons of food, air and water."
R. Buckminster FullerDoes humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
R. Buckminster FullerIt is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.
R. Buckminster Fuller