"To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission."

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

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

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

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

"Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization."

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

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

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

"Life is 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."

"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."

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

"Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?"