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.
Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling.
My philosophy is simple: It's a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things.
Perjury is the basest and meanest and most cowardly of crimes. What can it do? Perjury can change the common air that we breathe into the axe of an executioner.
I act as the tongue of you, ... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.
To practice Aikido fully you must calm the spirit and go back to the origin.
Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
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