Nature complies with its own laws. Nature is the law. When Man lacks understanding of Nature's laws and a Man-contrived structure buckles unexpectedly, it does not fail. It only demonstrates that Man did not understand Nature's laws and behaviors. Nothing failed. Man's knowledge or estimating was inadequate.
In "How Little I Know", in Saturday Review (12 Nov 1966), 152. Excerpted in Buckminster Fuller and Answar Dil, Humans in Universe (1983), 31.
1960s
“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”
As quoted in The Wright Style (1992) by Carla Lind, p. 3
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In "How Little I Know", in Saturday Review (12 Nov 1966), 152. Excerpted in Buckminster Fuller and Answar Dil, Humans in Universe (1983), 31.
"The Comprehensive Man", Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure (1963), 75-76.
1960s
Source: Young People See Faith Violation In Environmental DegradationUpdated https://www.ucanews.com/story-archive/?post_name=/2007/10/26/young-people-see-faith-violation-in-environmental-degradation&post_id=28210 (25 October 2007)
Ecrits pour l'art, ed. Henrietta Galle Paris 1908/Marseille (1980).
“The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.”
Source: The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), Ch. 14: Doctor Moreau Explains
Context: To this day I have never troubled about the ethics of the matter. The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.
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Fruits of Solitude (1682), Part I
Source: 1870s - 1880s, The Writings of a Savage (1996), pp. 5 & 22: Gauguin is advising a fellow painter, 1885
“Death is nature’s way of staying in charge.”
Death and the Eternal Forever (2014)