Aviation Quotes: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Filed in archive Aviation Quotes by Terah Shelton on March 29, 2008
These bright roofs, these steep towers, these jewel-lakes, these skeins of railroad line - all spoke to her and she answered. She was glad they were there. She belonged to them and they to her. . . . She had not lost it. She was touching it with her fingertips. This was flying: to go swiftly over the earth you loved, touching it lightly with your fingertips, holding the railroads lines in your hand to guide you, like a skein of wool in a spider-web game - like following Ariadne
's thread through the Minotaur's maze, Where would it lead, where?- Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 'The Steep Ascent', 1944
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