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The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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

Faithful Parent Unhappy
I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Experience Genius Life Lesson
What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Divorce Education Lost Love
Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Love Self Understanding
Our power is in our ability to decide.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Ability Power Success
As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Hungry Long Race
The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

People School Thinking
All their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Deprivation Million Month Pain Peace
My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Emergencies Enough Ideas
Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Degrees Devil Play
Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Events Fundamental Pattern
Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. ‘Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Mind Nature Nourishment Vigor
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Blind Management Sometimes
If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Children Design Men
Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper…depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Integrity People Political
Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment…. Humanity is in ‘final exam’ as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Finals Humanity Race