12 Index of Quotations and Guest Commentators

12  Index of Quotations and Guest Commentators

2Chapter 1

3 VIEW: Universal Perspective

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4 ‘‘I look for what needs to be done and then try to work out how to do it best. After all, that’s how Universe designs itself.’’The Future of Business (August 1981)

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5 ‘‘Start with Universe.’’Intuition and I Seem To Be A Verb

6 By David McConville

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7 ‘‘Integrity is the essence of everything successful.’’ Oregon Lecture #1 (July 1962.)By Jim Reger and David Irvine

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8 ‘‘On the edge of a large ship’s rudder is a miniature rudder called a trimtab. Moving that trimtab buildsa low pressure which turns the rudder that steers the giant ship with almost no effort. In society, one individual can be a trimtab, making a major difference and changing the course of the gigantic ship of state. So I said, ‘Call me Trimtab.’ ’’

9 Barry Farrell Playboy Interview

10 By Werner Erhard

11 By Justine Willis Toms

12 1*5 VVe now have the resources, technology and knowhow to make of this world a 100% physical success.’’ Utopia or Oblivion

13 By Barbara Marx Hubbard

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14 ‘‘Love is metaphysical gravity.’’Critical Path

15 By GaryZukav

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16 ‘‘Nature always knows what to do when it takes over after humans have signed off. Nature never vacillates in its instantaneous decisions.’’Critical Path

17 By Jack Elias

18 Universal Perspective of Gratitude and Equanimity Chapter Conclusion

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19 ‘‘I don’t have any favorite places or people. I love the whole show. A large number of beautiful people have taught me a great deal, and I am deeply indebted to them for their support.’’Fuller to Kay Elliot, Washington Star (September 1975)

20 Chapter 2

21 PURPOSE: Humans on Earth

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22 ‘‘The most important thing about Spaceship Earth—an instruction book didn’t come with it.’’ Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth‘‘The most special thing about me is that I am an average man.’’Fuller to J. Maxwell Smith, Jr. (March 1974)

23 By Robert White

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24 ‘‘It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?’’The Future of Business (August 1981)

25 By Greg Voisen

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26 ‘‘Humanity is taking its final examination. We have come to an extraordinary moment when it doesn’t have to be you or me. There is enough for all. We need not operate competitively any longer. If we succeed, it will be because of youth, truth, and love.’’Buckminster Fuller: An Autobiographical Monologue/Scenario

27 By Hazel Henderson

28 By T. J. Mackey

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29 ‘‘All children are born geniuses. 999 out of every 1,000 are swiftly and inadvertently degeniused by adults.’’Draft Preface for Mrs. John S. Lillard (August 1975)

30 By Anna Beshlian

31 By Stephen Garrett

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32 ‘‘I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing—a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process—an integral function of Universe.’’I Seem to Be a Verb

33 By Velcrow Ripper

34 By Thomas Myers

35 Purpose Without Control

36 Chapter Conclusion

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37 ‘‘Anyone who thinks that humans on this Earth are running Universe or that Universe was created only to amuse or displease or bore humans is obviously ignorant.’’How To Make Our World Work, New Dimensions Lecture Series (San Francisco)

38 Chapter 3

39 BEING: Showing Up Fully

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40 ‘‘Dare to be naive.’’Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking

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41 ‘‘You have to decide whether you want to make money or to make sense because the two are mutually exclusive.’’ Technology: Enchantment vs. Disenchantment (June 1977)By Randolph L. Craft

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42 ‘‘So I vowed to keep myself alive, but only if I would never use me again for just me—each one of us is bom of two, and we really belong to each other. I vowed to do my own thinking, instead of trying to accommodate everyone else’s opinion, credos, and theories. I vowed to apply my own inventory of experiences to the solving of problems that affect everyone aboard planet Earth.’’ Critical PathBy Dr. Joel Levey

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43 ‘‘Never mind if people don’t understand you, so long as no one misunderstands you.’’Buckminster Fuller: At Home In Universe

44 By James Roswell Quinn

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45 ‘‘There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings—and all the people sleeping in the slums.’’DSI Press Conference (June 1972)

46 3J5j‘LJnconscious decisions have consequences. Our assumptions drive our priorities, and in many cases we don’t even acknowledge they are there. Innovation arises from questioning the old assumptions.’’

47 By Stephan A. Schwartz

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48 ‘‘We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims. The challenge is to make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time, with spontaneous cooperation and without ecological damage or disadvantage of anyone.’’The Future of Business (August 1981)

49 By DC Cordova

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50 ‘‘I have learned that it is possible to stand and think out loud from the advantage of our most effective possible preparation, which is all recorded, and ontap in our brains and minds. Advance thought about our discourse spoils it. There, awaiting its anytime employment by our brain-scanning mind, is the ever recorded and highlighted inventory of our life-long experiences integrated with all the relevant experiences others have communicated to us. Out of this inventory, your live presence catalyzes my freshly reconsidering thoughts relevant to our mutual interests.’’

51 Environment and. Change (Originally deleted from Operation Manual for Spaceship Earth)

52 Coming Together

53 Chapter Conclusion

54 3*9 If two of us meet and you take a paper out of your pocket and start reading a speech, I will say, ‘Let me have that. I can read it myself more effectively.’ I am confident that live meetings catalyze swift awareness of the particular experiences of mutual interest regarding which our thoughts are spontaneously formulated. Live meetings often become pivotal in our lives.’’ Environment and Change (Originally deleted from Operation Manual for Spaceship Earth)

55 Chapter 4

56 DESIGN: Trimtab On The Path

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57 ‘‘The greatest of all faculties is the ability of the imagination to formulate conceptually. Artists have kept the integrity of childhood alive until humanity reaches the bridge between the arts and sciences.’’ Fuller: Who Will Man Spaceship Earth? (September 1971)‘‘Environment is stronger than will.’’The Future of Business (August 1981)

58 By Bobbi DePorter

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59 ‘‘Revolution by design and invention is the only revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, and all political systems anywhere.’’Oregon Lecture #2 (July 1962)

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60 ‘‘We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.’’Cosmography

61 By Zoe Weil

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62 ‘‘The most important thing to teach your children is that the Sun does not rise and set. It is the Earth that revolves around the Sun. Then teach them the concepts of North, South, East, and West, and that they relate to where they happen to be on the planet’s surface at that time. Everything else will follow.’’ WNBC-TV Interview, 1983By Ann Medlock

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63 ‘‘Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.’’By Satyen Raja

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64 ‘‘How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.’’How To Maize Our World Work, New Dimensions Lecture Series (San Francisco)

65 By Boshi Joan Halifax

66 By LD Thompson

67 Start With Universe—End Up With Contribution Chapter Conclusion

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68 ‘‘I didn’t set out to design a house that hung from a pole, or to manufacture a new type of automobile, invent a new system of map projection, develop geodesic domes, or Energetic-Synergetic geometry. I started with the Universe—as an organization of energy systems of which all our experiences and possible experiences are only local instances the principles operating in Universe, I could have ended up with a pair of flying slippers.’’Encyclopedia Britannica article by Robert W. Marks (August 1974)

69 Chapter 5

70 CONSCIOUSNESS; Waking Up To Being Awake

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71 ‘‘There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.’’How To Make Our World Work, New Dimensions Lecture Series (San Francisco)

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72 ‘‘Very very slow changes humans identify as inanimate. Slow change of pattern they call animate and natural. Fast changes they call explosive, and faster events than that humans cannot see directly.’’ Electromagnetic Spectrum (Oct. 1970)‘‘Our children and our grandchildren are our elders in universe time. They are born into a more complex, more evolved universe than we can experience or than we can know. It is our privilege to see that new world through their eyes.’’By John Robbins

73 By Ocean Robbins

74 By Lynne Twist

75 By Marilyn Schlitz

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76 ‘‘No human can prove, upon awakening, that they are the person who they think went to bed the night before or that anything they recollect is anything other than a convincing dream.’’Cosmic Fishing

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77 ‘‘If the success or failure of this planet, and of human beings, depended on how I am and what I do, how would I be? What would I do?’’How To Maize Our World Work, New Dimensions Lecture Series (San Francisco)

78 By Lisa Matheson

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79 ‘‘God is a verb.’’No More Secondhand God

80 By David Spangler

81 Consciously Empowering Others

82 Chapter Summary

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83 ‘‘I don’t know anything about the subconscious, and I have no right to deal in it. And so I have to deal in the conscious, and there has to be an attempt to communicate the experiences.’’Oregon Lecture #8 (July 1962)

84 Chapter 6

85 UNITY: It’s Everybody or Nobody

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86 ‘‘Either war is obsolete or men are.’’New Yorker, Jan. 1966

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87 ‘‘I am a passenger on the Spaceship Earth.’’ Operating Manual for Spaceship EarthBy Kevin J. Todeschi

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88 ‘‘It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a higher standard of living than anyhave ever known. It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary. War is obsolete. It is a matter of converting the high technology from weaponry to livingry.’’

89 Critical Path

90 By Lynne Twist

91 6»4 There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people, no matter how offensive or eccentric to society they may seem. You and I didn’t design people. God designed people. What I am trying to do is to discover why God included humans in Universe.’’

92 Critical Path

93 By Jamal Rahman

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94 ‘‘Think about a stadium of seventy-five thousand people. It’s really quite a large crowd, isn’t it? Every day seventy-five thousand people die of starvation despite the fact that we have plenty of food for everyone. Our distribution systems, our nations, all the different kind of separateness blocks the whole thing. Just think of it. Simply because we’re badly organized, we’re not taking care of it.’’Oregon Lectzire #5 (July 1962)

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95 ‘‘If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.’’Only Integrity Is Going To Count (1983)

96 By Dr. David Gruder

97 Making Our Spaceship Work

98 Chapter Conclusion

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99 ‘‘We are on a spaceship; a beautiful one. It took billions of years to develop. We’re not going to get another. Now, how do we make this spaceship work?’’ Critical PathChapter 7

100 ACTION: Making a Difference

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101 ‘‘Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all cooperate 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.’’ Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth‘‘There is no use talking about bright ideas. Everyone has bright ideas. There is no use talking about an artifact until we reduce it to practice, until we see whether Nature permits it, whether society permits it.’’Critical Path

102 By Dr. Cherie Clark

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103 ‘‘What can a little man effect toward such realizations in the face of the formidable power of great corporations, great states, and all their knowhow, guns, monies, armies, tools and information?The individual can take initiatives without anybody’s permission. Only individuals can think, and can look for the principles manifest in their experiences that others may be overlooking because they are too preoccupied with how to please some boss or with how to earn money, how to take care of today’s bills. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment by developing tools that deal more effectively and economically with evolutionary challenges.

104 Humans can participate—consciously and competently—in fundamental ways, to changes that are more favorable to human life. It became evident that the individual was the only one that could deliberately find the time to think in a cosmically adequate manner.’* Buckminster Fuller: An Autobiographical Monologue/Scenario

105 By Peter M eisen

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106 ‘‘My working assumption is that we are here as local Universe information gatherers. We are given access to the divine design principles so that from them we can invent objectively the instruments and tools that qualify us as local Universe problem solvers in support of the integrity of an eternally regenerative Universe.’’Only Integrity Is Going To Count (1983)

107 By Michelle Levey

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108 ‘‘You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.’’Critical Path

109 By Bill Kauth

110 By Rick Ingrasci

111 ByMichela Miller

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112 ‘‘The best way to predict the future is to invent it.’’By Hunter Lovins

113 Take Action and Do Something!

114 Chapter Conclusion

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115 ‘‘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.’’Only Integrity Is Going To Count (1983)

116 SOURCES OF THE QUOTATIONS

117 During the decades I have studied Buckminster Fuller’s life, wisdom, and work, I discovered that his seemingly complex and diverse message, like Nature itself, is actually quite simple. Although he lived by the adage "Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time,’’ the essence of his communications to fellow travelers on board Spaceship Earth was consistent.

118 From his first publishing of 4D magazine in 1927 through his final public ‘‘thinking out loud’’ lecture in 1983, his guidance followed a constant theme—Nature is attempting to make humans a success, and we now have the capacity to be cooperative partners in that endeavor if we first learn to collaborate with and be supportive of our fellow human beings.

119 Bucky tended to recount this and his other guiding messages again and again at each of his lectures and in his writings, but the exact words he used would often be different. I have found a quotation written or spoken in many different forms. They may not contain the exact same words, but their essence and intention are constant.

120 Bucky did his best to be of service to us all by making his thoughts and ideas as publicly available as possible. He did not have any organization disseminating or monitoring the information that he felt was so vital to the success of humankind.

121 Because of these reasons, the quotations listed in this book can be found in many different forms and sources. The source for each quote that is listed in this Index is usually one of many, and I do not claim that it is the only or best place that the quotation can be found.

122 Several people have worked diligently to verify that each quotation was said or written by Buckminster Fuller, however we have not been able to do so for every quote. Some of the wisdom in this book was heard by the commentators or written down by individuals who unofficially took them to heart and shared them with others. Thus, no formal record of their source exists. Like the insights of the great master teachers, many of Bucky’s words were written down after the fact to be shared by people who were in his presence and felt responsible to capture this wisdom as best they could.

123 If anyone is able to substantiate the source of any unlabelled quotation in this book please notify us, and we will publish that source in future editions. Thank you for your generous support in this endeavor.

124 L. Steven Sieden. July 12, 2011. My personal email address is ssieden@gmail.com.

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126 Nothing as daunting as creating this book could be accomplished as a solo effort. Even though I often went for days without speaking to another person while writing and editing A Fuller View, it is the result of a genuine collaboration. Most notable are the forty-two generous souls who said ‘‘yes’’ to my Guest Commentator invitation. Without the kind and generous support of these people, the perspective of A Fuller View would be far from fuller. These people are ...

127 Gary Zukav, John Robbins, Lynne Twist, Marilyn Schlitz, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Werner Erhard, Hunter Lovins, Hazel Henderson, Roshi Joan Halifax, Ocean Robbins, Bill Kauth, Jack Elias, Stephen Garrett, James Roswell Quinn, Michelle Levey, Dr. Joel Levey, Kevin Todeschi, TJ McKay, Anna Beshlian, DC Cordova, David Spangler, Jim Reger, David Irvine, Michela Miller, Dr. David Gruder, Justine Willis Toms, Bobbi DePorter, Ann Medlock, LD Thompson, Zoe Weil, Peter Meisen, Robert White, Velcrow Ripper, Satyen Raja, Jamal Rahman, David McConville, Greg Voisen, Thomas Meyers, Randolph L. Craft, Dr. Cherie Clark, Lisa Matheson, Dr. Rick Ingrasci, Stephan Schwartz and Michael Wiese.

128 My confidence in the necessity of this book continued to grow as the list of Guest Commentators expanded like a snowball rolling downhill. And without the initial push from my friends Bill Kauth, Michelle Levey, and Joel Levey that ball would not have rolled so smoothly or quickly.

129 The other person to whom this book and I owe so much is Michael Wiese, a publisher all authors should have the privilege of working with and a genuine mensch. Michael and I cooked up this idea via email late one winter night (it was actually daytime in England, where he lives), and he has been a true partner throughout this process. His associate Manny Otto has also been kind and generous well beyond what I have ever experienced dealing with publishers and editors. Their copy editor Andrew Beierle has made the book even more impeccable (as Bucky would have wanted it), and he did his work with a grace and ease that reduced my stress.

130 I’ve felt that this book was destined to be since August 31, 2009, when I came about as close to dying as possible. On that day I was gifted with ‘‘extra’’ years of life as a result of quadruple bypass open-heart surgery (I call it my ‘‘open heart initiation’’), and I had a sense that there was a clear reason for my survival.

131 Three people were critical to me making it through that initiation. Without Laurie Ross, Jill Clarice Sieden, and Mark Blair, this book would never have been written because I would have died. That incident and the months of recovery caused me to remember Bucky’s admonition that we each have unique gifts to contribute. It also led me to realize that I was the person with the experience and skill to share a unique vision of Bucky’s legacy through writing and presentations. Just as the voice spoke to him and told him that he was a unique link in a chain that he did not have a right to break, my heart incident caused me to assess my situation and find what needed to be done that was not being attended to.

132 Still, without the generous support of others, this book would never have come to fruition. Key among those who have sustained me along this path are people I consider master teachers who have played a significant role in my life since I took my first meditation/yoga class in 1975. These amazing people are too numerous to mention or recall. Still, I would like to acknowledge the Seventh Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, Joel and Michelle Levey, Mother Mary, Jean Houston, Alexander Everett, Werner Erhard, Alberto Villoldo, Elizabeth Cogburn,

133 Swami Veda Bharati, Mary Adams, Hank Wesselman, Marshall Thurber, Ipupiara, Michael Hague, and Perna Chodron.

134 And no acknowledgement of Bucky Fuller’s work and wisdom would be complete without thanking the family of Buckminster Fuller—especially his daughter Allegra Fuller Snyder and grandson Jaime Synder—for keeping his legacy alive through the Buckminster Fuller Institute. To them, the BFI ( www.bfi.org) and its president David McConville, ‘‘we the people’’ will always be grateful.

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136 Many others, too numerous to recall or remember, have supported me in this journey. As Bucky once wrote, ‘‘A large number of beautiful people have taught me a great deal, and I am deeply indebted to them for their support.’’ The following is a list of all those I recall at this moment. I apologize in advance to anyone I forgot in my haste to complete this project. I am grateful to you all for your kind and generous support.

137 Wayne Greenfield ( www.WayneGreenfield.com), Tauri Senn and Michael Gamble all of whom caught many mistakes in the manuscript, ManKind Project Brothers, the Nalandabodhi Seattle Sangha—especially our Monday night Dharma Sangha, Diana Elmer, Elizabeth Kawakami, Steve Heck, Kelly Clifton-Purdy, Dr. Tim Clanton, Dr. Dirk Farrell, Jack Elias, Hope Maltz, Alex LaVilla, Kathleen Carrara, Dr. Bruce Beaulaurier , Stanley Sabre, Dr. Dean Chier, Susan Gray, Michael Hartzell, Jim Burbidge, Shefali Sinha, Karolyn McKinley, JR Gillespie, Cheryl Valk, Malcolm McKay, Paul R. Scheele, Andy Bradford, Linda Francis, Lisa Kennedy, Cassidy Fritz, Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel, Lori Weismann, Sally King, Auben Pamela Gail MacKay, Dr. Sheila Dunn- Merritt, Dr. Jason MacLurg, Robert Greczanik, Diane Brooks, Dr. Jeffrey A. Hirsch, Greg Voisen, Lovorka Knezevic, Ken Lee, Don Ross, Ceci Miller, Joel Levey, Michelle Levey, Mike O’Shea, Vicki Robin, Jon Witte, Elie McSherry, Trey Styles, Mike Dooley, Deborah Drake, Phil Sieden, Sherwin Sieden, Michael Sieden, Irving Sieden, Sam Sieden, Louise Lent Sieden, Rex Maruca, Dr. Gabriel Aldea, Dr. Rubin Maidan, Alice Villa, Lynn Conrad Marvet, Ross Quinn, Greg Torvik, Maureen Goldish, Todd Bernstein, Sheila Baker, Mark Power, Robert Lee, Nadine Selden, Stuart Horn, Hobbs Sieden, David Sieden, Karley Sieden Sweet, Daniel Sieden, Jesse Sieden, Frank Dollar, and all the people who smile at me during my daily walk or jog around Green Lake.

138 May all these generous people continually experience the bounty of our abundant Spaceship Earth and the gratitude of all those who benefit from this book.