How Long Can Men Thrive Between Walls

God Made Life Simple. It Is Man Who Complicates It.

My Father Had Been Opposed To My Flying From The First And Had Never Flown Himself. However, He Had Agreed To Go Up With Me At The First Opportunity, And One Afternoon He Climbed Into The Cockpit And We Flew Over The Redwood Falls Together. From That Day On I Never Heard A Word Against My Flying And He Never Missed A Chance To Ride In The Plane.

The Forces Of Hannibal, Drake And Napoleon Moved At Best With The Horses' Gallop Or The Speed Of Wind On Sail. Now, Aviation Brings A New Concept Of Time And Distance To The Affairs Of Men. It Demands Adaptability To Change, Places A Premium On Quickness Of Thought And Speed Of Action.

This Is Earth Again, The Earth Where I've Lived And Now Will Live Once More ... I've Been To Eternity And Back. I Know How The Dead Would Feel To Live Again.

If We Can Combine Our Knowledge Of Science With The Wisdom Of Wildness, If We Can Nurture Civilization Through Roots In The Primitive, Man's Potentialities Appear To Be Unbounded, Through This Evolving Awareness, And His Awareness Of That Awareness, He Can Emerge With The Miraculous-to Which We Can Attach What Better Name Than 'god'? And In This Merging, As Long Sensed By Intuition But Still Only Vaguely Perceived By Rationality, Experience May Travel Without Need For Accompanying Life.