For Every Minute, The Future Is Becoming

Surrounded By Military Airplanes And Warships From The World's Most Civilized And Developed Nations, We Have Been Denied Permission By Friendly Governments, For Reasons Of Security, To Land Anywhere, But In The Tiny, And Still Neutral, Republic Of Djibouti.

We Are Not Talking About Esthetics. We Are Talking About Life: Survival Of Man. We Must Train Young People To Get Another Vision Of Nature. We Call It 'wilderness,' And We Think It Is Progress To Get Further And Further Away From It. How Crazy! Where Would We Have Been If Nature Had Not Built Us Up?

Borders I Have Never Seen One. But I Have Heard They Exist In The Minds Of Some People.

...arranging The Journey Was So Difficult. Getting Home Again Was Much Easier.

Land! An Island! We Devoured It Greedily With Our Eyes And Woke The Others, Who Tumbled Out Drowsily And Stared In All Directions As If They Thought Our Bow Was About To Run On To A Beach. Screaming Seabirds Formed A Bridge Across The Sky In The Direction Of The Distant Island, Which Stood Out Sharper Against The Horizon As The Red Background Widened And Turned Gold With The Approach Of The Sun And The Full Daylight.