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We are here as local information harvesters, local problem-solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe. The fact that we get away from physical problems doesn’t mean we go away from problems. The problems are really rarely physical.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Ideas Inspirational Real
How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Else Journey Life Somewhere
Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Believe Blind Men Spots
Controlled time is our true wealth.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Controlled Inspirational True Wealth
We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars’ worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Home Jobs People Petroleum Producing
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
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Book Earth Important
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
Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Boards Earth Four
Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don’t hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Integrity Law Men
The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

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

Faithful Parent Unhappy
Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Degrees Devil Play
… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Giving Men Reform
There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Children Damage Genius
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Country Day Military Peace People