Buckminster Fuller. Searching for
"Nature's Pencil". Photo: Fuller Archives
"I'm not trying to imitate nature, I'm trying to find the pencil she's using." -R. Buckminster Fuller
Buckminster Fuller never gave up his searh to find “Nature’s pencil.” Like so many geniuses, he was constantly searching for the essence of how things worked best. And when he found such solutions in Nature, he applied them to his projects. Thus, we have his most famous invention – the geodesic dome – modeled after structures found in Nature.
Still, the question continues to be in the quest. Fuller and many others constantly seek the next evolution of ideas, and the really cleaver people always look to Nature first. Were all humans to do that, we would realize that there are enough resources to go around, and what we need to do is be very careful in using exactly enough. Not too much and not too little.
Nature’s pencil is such a sustainable model. She writes and draws with a precision and exactness that humans have difficulty understanding or modeling. Still, people like Bucky and many of today’s great minds continue to search because they know that the search is as important as reaching the goal.
May we all find what we need to play our individual roles as members of Nature’s grand plan.
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