You haven’t seen a tree until you’ve seen its shadow from the sky. – Amelia Earhart
There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war. – Amelia Earhart

You haven’t seen a tree until you’ve seen its shadow from the sky. – Amelia Earhart
There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war. – Amelia Earhart
Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash. – Amelia Earhart
Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others. – Amelia Earhart
Readers of novels. I sometimes think that I could, if put to it, pick the real readers of novels out of a crowd. They have a strangeness about the eye, almost as if there were an extra bit of lens on the cornea…. The glance of a reader shows me a soul with a different orientation to time… – Sven Birkerts (b.1951), “Notes from a Confession,” The Agni Review, No.22 (1985)