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1902–1974 United States
Charles Augustus Lindbergh II (4 February 1902 – 26 August 1974) was an American aviator, author, inventor, military officer, explorer, and social activist who piloted the first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927. An isolationist prior to the US entry into World War II, and in later years an environmental activist, he was the husband of Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
United States Activists Anti-communists Aviators Environmentalists Also known as: Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Charles Augustus Lindbergh II
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In wilderness, I sense the miracle of life, and behind it, our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.
Lindbergh: Flight's Enigmatic Hero (2002)
I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.
If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
Life — 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.
The failures of previous civilizations, and the crises existing for our own, show that man has not evolved the ability to cope with limitless complication.
Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.
Lindbergh (1998)
In fact, the more power-driven, complex and delicate our civilization becomes, the more likelihood arises that a collapse will force us back to wildness.
He never wanted to be regarded as a hero or leader, and he never had political ambitions.
Air power is new to all our countries. It brings advantages to some and weakens others; it calls for readjustment everywhere.
Aviation, Geography, and Race (1939)
As the first American airman to exhibit "the right stuff," Lindbergh inspired his country's first astronauts by sheer example.
Science intensifies religious truth by cleansing it of ignorance and superstition.
Was not my earth's surface more important than increasing the speed of transport and visiting the moon and Mars?
Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?
The wild world is the human world.
Here was a place where men and life and death had reached the lowest form of degradation. How could any reward in national progress even faintly justify the establishment and operation of such a place?
Our emphasis [on] science has resulted in alarming rises in world populations that demand an ever-increasing emphasis [on] science to improve their standards and maintain their vigor.
After my death, the molecules of my being will return to the earth and sky. They came from the stars. I am of the stars.
Autobiography of Values (1978)
Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation, in turn, becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on to the future.
I stared at the very end of life, and at life that forms beyond, at the fact of immortality.
Autobiography of Values (1978)
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