More from Charles Lindbergh
- “The Wisdom of Wilderness” in LIFE (22 December 1967)
If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
“Is Civilization Progress?” in Reader’s Digest (July 1964)- Autobiography of Values (1978)
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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?” in Reader’s Digest (July 1964)
Quote and source from Wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0
If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.