Charles Lindbergh

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

"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 obligat…"

"The wild world is the human world. Having evolved in it for millions of centuries, we are not far removed by a cloth of civilization. It is packed into our genes. In fact, the more power-driven, compl…"

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

"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."

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

"Articles on Lindbergh at The New York Times"

"Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance."