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July 12：Henry David Thoreau, Josiah Wedgwood, Buckminster Fuller



Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller was an American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor. Fuller published more than 30 books, coining or popularizing terms such as "Spaceship Earth", ephemeralization, and synergetic.Wikipedia
Born: July 12, 1895, Milton, Massachusetts, United States
Died: July 1, 1983, Los Angeles, California, United States
Spouse: Anne Fuller (m. 1917–1983)
Structures: Dymaxion house, MORE
Quotes
When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
Love is metaphysical gravity.

Happy Birthday Buckminster Fuller! "Bucky" is known as the father of sustainability and he is most famous for popularizing the Geodesic dome.


Josiah Wedgwood - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Wedgwood

Josiah Wedgwood (12 July 1730 – 3 January 1795) was an English potter and entrepreneur. He founded the Wedgwood company.
‎Biography · ‎Legacy and influence · ‎Abolitionism

British potter Josiah Wedgwood was born #onthisday in 1730. This beautiful blue and white vase is a fine example of the style he perfected in the 1770s. Known as jasper ware, this unglazed, matte finish pottery is stained with colour before firing. The smooth blue background with white relief is typical of Wedgwood pottery of this era – as is the Greek-inspired scene. Wedgwood presented this vase to the Museum himself in 1786, and you can still see it on display in Room 47.http://ow.ly/jQxx30dvoap






In honor of Thoreau’s 200th birthday, hundreds of new images of his specimens, along with the data associated with them, are being posted online.


Thoreau’s 200th birthday brings gift for botanists
Harvard University Herbaria will post images of more than 800 plants the author and naturalist collected, part of a larger digitization effort.
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Henry David Thoreau was an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian. Wikipedia
Born: July 12, 1817, Concord, Massachusetts, United States
Died: May 6, 1862, Concord, Massachusetts, United States
Influenced: Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., more
Essays: Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, more
Quotes

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.
Things do not change; we change.

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Aug. 26: Guillaume Apollinaire, Julio Cortazar

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