If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
Anne Morrow LindberghRead
Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars.
Interpretation
The quote reflects on the beauty and memories associated with nature and the passage of time.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh's quote encapsulates a sense of nostalgia and wonderment for the natural world. It evokes imagery of expansive fields and starry skies, highlighting the profound impact that such experiences have on one's memories and life journey. The reference to 'many days' and 'many nights' emphasizes the continuity of existence and the richness of moments spent in the embrace of nature.
In practice
During a speech reflecting on the importance of preserving natural spaces.
If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
When each partner loves so completely that he has forgotten to ask himself whether or not he is loved in return; when he only knows that he loves and is moving to its music--then, and then only are two people able to dance perfectly in tune to the same rhythm.
It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.
Travelers are always discoverers, especially those who travel by air. There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.
Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.
I am most anxious to give my own children enough love and understanding so that they won't grow up with an aching void in them--like you and I and Harold and Martha. That can never be filled, and one goes around all one's life trying, trying to make up for what one didn't get that was one's birthright, asking the wrong people for it.
Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.
The earth's crust has not yet stopped heaving and plunging under our feet. Mountain ranges are still being thrust up on the horizon. Granites are still growing under the continental masses. Nor has the organic world ceased to produce new buds at the tips of its countless branches.
What did the earth teach the trees? _x000D_ How to speak to the sky.
There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.
If we had better hearing, and could discern the descants of sea birds, the rhythmic tympani of schools of mollusks, or even the distant harmonics of midges hanging over meadows in the sun, the combined sound might lift us off our feet.
I don't fly because of the enormous climate impact of aviation per person.
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