Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.
Interpretation
True freedom is found in untamed nature rather than in structured society.
This quote by Charles Lindbergh suggests that genuine freedom is best experienced in the wild and natural world, rather than in the constraints and rules imposed by civilization. It implies that the essence of being truly free is tied to the unrestrained and unfiltered aspects of nature, where one can be liberated from societal norms and expectations.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of environmental conservation.
How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?
In wilderness I sense the miracle of life.
Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life?
In honoring the Wright Brothers, it is customary and proper to recognize their contribution to scientific progress. But I believe it is equally important to emphasize the qualities in their pioneering life and the character in man that such a life produced. The Wright Brothers balanced sucess with modesty, science with simplicity. At Kitty Hawk their intellects and senses worked in mutual support. They represented man in balance, and from that balance came wings to lift a world.
We are in the grip of a scientific materialism, caught in a vicious cycle where our security today seems to depend on regimentation and weapons which will ruin us tomorrow.
We are in grave danger of losing forever not just millions of years of evolution on earth, but the eons of change that have produced man and his natural environment.
To be free . . . to walk the good American earth as equal citizens, to live without fear, to enjoy the fruits of our toil, to give our children every opportunity in life--that dream which we have held so long in our hearts is today the destiny that we hold in our hands.
To speak for others is to first silence those in whose name we speak
I began graduate school in the late 1980s, and my goal was to understand how morality varied across cultures and nations. I did some research comparing moral judgment in India and the U.S.A.
Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.
I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not.
God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. The man who would know God must give time to Him.
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