Then followed that beautiful season…Summer…Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.

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"Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Love

"Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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"Softly the evening came with the sunset."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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"The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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"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

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"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

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"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

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"I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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