"I owned the world that hour as I rode over it . . . . free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how inseparably I was bound to them."
Charles A. Lindbergh, American aviator
"In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments—there are consequences."
"There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants."