black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.

R. Buckminster Fuller

We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Diversity Fate Success
Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Heart Integrity Self
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Faithful Parent Unhappy
Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Feet Firsts Mistakes Repeat
The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Environmental Inspirational Space
Never show unfinished work.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Shows Unfinished Work
Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Done Humans Instead Really Society
Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Genius Mother People
The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Dark Persistence Thinking
And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life’s challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Challenge Change Difference Matter Person
We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Go Letting Life Should
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Inspirational Integrity Success
Our power is in our ability to decide.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Ability Power Success
However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Country Jobs Wisdom
The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Effectiveness Greater Striving
Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Needs Tasks Thinking