“The U.S. grid consists of over seven hundred electric power facilities, over seven hundred thousand miles of high-voltage transmission lines, fifty-six thousand substations, and over six and a half million miles of local lines.”
― Edge of Survival
― Edge of Survival
“religion is a system of symbols that, when enacted by human beings, establishes powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods and motivations that make sense in terms of an idea of a general order of existence.18”
― Religion in Human Evolution
― Religion in Human Evolution
“the dog-owners habitually transferred to the lower-level elevators, encouraging their pets to use them as lavatories. This rivalry between the dog-owners and the parents of small children had in a sense already polarized the building. Between the upper and lower floors the central mass of apartments—roughly from the 10th floor to the 30th—formed a buffer state.”
― High-Rise
― High-Rise
“Boy, you couldn’t pour pee out of a boot with instructions on the heel.”
― Chasing Fireflies
― Chasing Fireflies
“This is why Fuller's definition depends upon consciousness. Our awareness of energy events defines their existence; we cannot go beyond the limits set by our understanding.”
― A Fuller Explanation: The Synergetic Geometry of R. Buckminster Fuller
― A Fuller Explanation: The Synergetic Geometry of R. Buckminster Fuller
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