In wilderness I sense the miracle of life.
Interpretation
The quote expresses a deep appreciation for the life and beauty found in natural settings.
Charles Lindberghβs quote highlights the profound connection humans can have with nature. In the wilderness, away from civilization, he feels a sense of wonder and awe at the intricate and miraculous aspects of life that persist, undisturbed by modern advancements. This recognition underscores the importance of nature in understanding life's beauty and complexity.
In practice
A speaker at a nature conservation event could use this quote to emphasize the importance of preserving wild spaces.
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?
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.
There is no better way to give comfort to an enemy than to divide the people of a nation over the issue of foreign war. There is no shorter road to defeat than by entering a war with inadequate preparation.
Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up.
A golf course should aspire to generate as much energy as it consumes - golf should be leading the way toward energy net zero.
Three things remain with us from paradise: stars, flowers and children.
The garden is a living, pulsing, singing, scratching, warring, erotic, and generally rowdy thing. I may find peace in its midst, but I regard it as a whole with many parts, a plural organism.
I go to books and to nature as a bee goes to the flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.
I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
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