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Charles Lindbergh Quotes

"How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?"
Nature

"Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it."

"In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia."
Nature

"Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests."
Dreams

"I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve."

"He makes fuzz come out of my bald patch!"

"Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter."

"If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes."

"I owned the world that hour as I rode over it. free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how inseparably I was bound to them."

"But I have seen the science I worshipped and the aircraft I loved destroying the civilization I expected them to serve."

"To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission."

"Isn't it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?"

"It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you have wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane."

"Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?"

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