Desires Quote by Maud Casey

“From an airplane, the earth always looks so orderly, so gentle. So full of abundance and grace and purposeful intelligence. By day you could…

— Elizabeth Berg, The Year of Pleasures

“Logically, he understood air travel was completely possible. Emotionally, he found the idea of an enormous, tremendously heavy metal object filled with people propelling…

— Marshall Thornton

“The wind of the world was wild, and it mocked human expectations. But it wasn't the wind that carried you. It was the flex…

— Alex London

“We were, on that day, no different from the ancients, terrified of our own big sky.”

— Karen Thompson Walker

“Now a new era had dawned upon the world, which quivered with the impact of tremendous forces, of discoveries and inventions. Man rode upon…

— Robert Nathan

“He went up to the globe and gave it a spin. It emitted a faint creak and moved about one inch, bringing into his…

— Galsworthy John

“This myth he'd made out of intricate movements and imagination, out of moonlight and love, out of prayers older than Adam, and gray cliffs…

— Frank Herbert

“We are all born to fly. Instead, we sit on the branches afraid of the leap into the unknown. But the unknown is where…

— Enza Vita

“If an ancient man saw planes two thousand years ago He would've thought they were birds Or angels from another world Or messengers from…

— Dejan Stojanovic

“And he told stories about the stars above, about the earth below. He told them to make the night pass, and also because his…

— Jean Giono

“people had true knowledge of the world perhaps they would not take up arms and so perhaps he could be an aggregator of information…

— Paulette Jiles