Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Love is metaphysical gravity.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Man knows so much and does so little.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
R. Buckminster Fuller

My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
R. Buckminster Fuller

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Tension is the great integrity.
R. Buckminster Fuller

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.
R. Buckminster Fuller

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
R. Buckminster Fuller

The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.
R. Buckminster Fuller

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
R. Buckminster Fuller