“To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time.”
"Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of conception. The world, you realize, is enormous in a way that only you and a small community of fellow hikers know. Planetary scale is your little secret."
- Bill Bryson
Awareness
"There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age."
- Bill Bryson
Adversity
"Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old."
- Bill Bryson
Creativity
"I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I’ve never been before."
- Bill Bryson
Joy
"They talk about big skies in the western United States, and they may indeed have them, but you have never seen such lofty clouds, such towering anvils, as in Iowa in July."
- Bill Bryson
Nature
"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."
- Leonardo DaVinci
Inspiration
"Man must rise above the Earth—to the top of the atmosphere and beyond—for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives."
- Socrates
Inspiration
"The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their grueling travels across trackless lands in prehistoric times, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space, at full speed, above all obstacles, on the infinite highway of the air."
- Wilbur Wright
Inspiration
"Sometimes, flying feels too God-like to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes to see."
- Charles A. Lindbergh
Inspiration
"I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Inspiration