Original: «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?».
Fuente: Citado en: Is It Hot in Here?: The Simple Truth About Global Warming http://books.google.es/books?id=5sVccxbp2KgC&pg=PA143. Nathan Todd Cool. iUniverse, 2006. ISBN 0-595-40622-X, pág. 143.
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Frases célebres de Charles Lindbergh
“Si tuviera que elegir, preferiría tener pájaros que aviones.”
Original: «If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes».
Fuente: artículo «Is Civilization Progress?» en Reader's Digest, julio de 1964.
Describiendo su primer salto en paracaídas.
Original: «Life changed after that jump...I'd suddenly stepped to the highest level of daring, a level above even that which airplane pilots could attain».
Fuente: The Saturday Evening Post - Volumen 225 (1953) - Página 150.
Original: «I have seen the science I worshipped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve».
Fuente: Lindbergh, Of Flight and Life. en Time, (6 de septiembre de 1948).
Original: «The wild world is the human world. Having evolved in it for millions of centuries, we are not far removed by a cloth of civilization. It is packed into our genes. In fact, the more power-driven, complex and delicate our civilization becomes, the more likelihood arises that a collapse will force us back to wildness. There is in wildness a natural wisdom that shapes all Earth's experiments with life. Can we tap this wisdom without experiencing the agony of reverting to wildness? Can we combine it with intellectual developments of which we feel so proud, use it to redirect our modern trends before they lead to a worse breakdown than past civilizations have experienced? I believe we can, and that to do so we must learn from the primitive.»
Fuente: "The Wisdom of Wilderness" en LIFE, (22 de diciembre de 1967).
Charles Lindbergh: Frases en inglés
Forword to The Gentle Tasady : A Stone Age People in the Philippine Rain Forest (1975) by John Nance, a book on the Tasaday of Mindanao (7 April 1974)
Thoughts on his first parachute jump in The Spirit of St Louis (1953)
“If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.”
"Is Civilization Progress?" in Reader's Digest (July 1964)
As quoted in Lindbergh: Flight's Enigmatic Hero (2002) by Von Hardesty
"Is Civilization Progress?" in Reader's Digest (July 1964)
“Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.”
As quoted in Lindbergh (1998) by A. Scott Berg, p. 510
Aviation, Geography, and Race (1939)
New York Times Magazine (23 May 1971)
