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It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men — where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane; where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time.

— Charles Lindbergh Thoughts on his first parachute jump in The Spirit of St Louis (1953)

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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.

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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.

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