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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Life can be like looking at a landscape. When you're right in the middle of your own life, it's hard to see the whole picture. But if you step back and look at your life from a distance, you can better understand and describe it.

About Charles Lindbergh

Charles Lindbergh was an American aviator who made the first non-stop flight from New York City to Paris in 1927, a feat that revolutionized the aviation industry. He faced controversy later in life due to his isolationist views, but remained a pioneering figure in aviation and exploration throughout his career.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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