Quote of the Day: Charles Lindbergh on Urban Living

Jasmin Malik Chua
Living / Culture
April 3, 2009

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How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?

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