William Langewiesche Quotes

• I ask people who don't fly, "How can you not fly when you live in a time in history when you can fly?"

  William Langewiesche

  People, Flying, Aviation

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• So much of who we are is where we have been.

  William Langewiesche

  Who We Are, Has Beens

  William Langewiesche (2011). “Sahara Unveiled: A Journey Across the Desert”, p.46, Vintage

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• Mechanical wings allow us to fly, but it is with our minds that we make the sky ours

  William Langewiesche

  Sky, Wings, Mind

  William Langewiesche (1998). “Inside the Sky: A Meditation on Flight”, Pantheon

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• I sometimes still go out hunting for bad weather, flying low in simple airplanes to explore the inner reaches of the clouds. Less experienced pilots occasionally join me, not to learn formal lessons about weather flying, but with a more advanced purpose in mind - to accompany me in the slow accumulation of experience through circumstances that never repeat in a place that defies mastery.

  William Langewiesche

  Airplane, Simple, Hunting

  William Langewiesche (1998). “Inside the Sky: A Meditation on Flight”, Pantheon

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• You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst.

  William Langewiesche

  Rain, Desert, Littles

  William Langewiesche (2011). “Sahara Unveiled: A Journey Across the Desert”, p.18, Vintage

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• Some think of Islam as an expedient jobs program that moves the female half of the population out of the way.

  William Langewiesche

  Jobs, Moving, Thinking

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• The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small.

  William Langewiesche

  Mean, Mastery, Stories

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