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

Charles Lindbergh
I live only in the moment in this strange, unmortal space, crowded with beauty, pierced with danger.

Charles Lindbergh
What kind of man would live where there is no danger? I don't believe in taking foolish chances. But nothing can be accomplished by not taking a chance at all.

Charles Lindbergh
Any coward can sit in his 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. What kind of man would live where there is no daring? And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure? Is there a better way to die?

Charles Lindbergh
Aviation seems almost a gift from heaven to those Western nations who were already the leaders of their era, strengthening their leadership, their confidence, their dominance over other peoples. It is a tool specially shaped for Western hands, a scientific art which others only copy in a mediocre fashion; another barrier between the teeming millions of Asia and the Grecian inheritance of Europe — one of those priceless possessions which permit the White race to live at all in a pressing sea of Yellow, Black, and Brown.

Charles Lindbergh
This is earth again, the earth where I've lived and now will live once more... I've been to eternity and back. I know how the dead would feel to live again.

Charles Lindbergh