How strange is this combination of proximity and separation. That ground—seconds away—thousands of miles away. – Charles A. Lindbergh

For — believe me — the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is — to live dangerously! – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), The Gay Science, “Book Four: St Januarius

Ah, if he could have plunged up into the clouds, so as to sweep thereon through the undulating heavens over the boundless earth!—ah, if he could have floated with the flower-fragrance over the flowers,—could have streamed with the wind over the summits, through the woods! – Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, Hesperus, or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography,