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More Secondhand God and Other Writings (1963)
The revolution has come -
set on fire from the top.
Let it burn swiftly.
Neither the branches, trunk, nor roots will be endangered.
Only last years leaves and
the parasite-bearded moss and orchids
will not be there
when the next spring brings fresh growth
and free standing flowers.
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Intuition
(1970)
In 170 pages of poetry, Buckminster Fuller takes the reader
on a journey to prove that the Earth and its human inhabitants
are playing an integral and yet far less than efficient part
in the actualization of a brilliant but necessarily mysterious
evolutionary plan |
Richard
Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller (July 12, 1895 –
July 1, 1983) was an American architect, author, designer, futurist,
inventor, and visionary. He was the second president of Mensa.
Throughout
his life, Fuller was concerned with the question "Does
humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully
on planet Earth, and if so, how?"
Considering
himself an average individual without special monetary means
or academic degree, he chose to devote his life to this question,
trying to identify what he, as an individual, could do to
improve humanity's condition, which large organizations, governments,
and private enterprises inherently could not do.
Pursuing
this lifelong experiment, Fuller wrote more than thirty books,
coining and popularizing terms such as "Spaceship Earth",
ephemeralization, and synergetics. He also worked in the development
of numerous inventions, chiefly in the fields of design and
architecture, the best known of which is the geodesic dome.
Carbon molecules known as fullerenes or buckyballs were named
for their resemblance to geodesic spheres.
Fuller
was awarded 28 US patents and many honorary doctorates. In
1970, he received the Gold Medal award from the American Institute
of Architects, and also received numerous other awards.
Fuller
died on July 1, 1983, aged 87
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