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Charles Lindbergh
Charles Augustus Lindbergh II (4 February 1902—26 August 1974) American aviator, writer; piloted the first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927.
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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.
- Thoughts on his first parachute jump in The Spirit of St Louis (1953)
- 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.
- "Is Civilization Progress?" Reader’s Digest (July 1964)
- 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.
- New York Times Magazine (23 May 1971)
- If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
- I realized that the future of aviation, to which I had devoted so much of my life, depended less on the perfection of aircraft than on preserving the epoch-evolved environment of life, and that this was true of all technological progress.
- The Gentle Tasaday (foreword, 7 Apr 1974)
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- Any coward can sit at home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather by far die on a mountainside than in bed.
- 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?
- I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.
- 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.
- In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
- Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?
- 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.
- Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.
- Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.
- Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.
- Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.
- To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
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