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Quotes of the Day for 25 January 2005 - Distance

The width of the North American continent was once great. Two centuries ago, the Lewis and Clark expedition was only half way through a trip that took almost two years one way. Today, this message will cross the country in milliseconds, and if I were willing to put up with the discomfort of air travel I could be in New York late tonight. Two events that occurred on this date were milestones in this change. On this date in 1915 Alexander Graham Bell placed the first telephone call spanning the continent, from New York to San Francisco. And on this date in 1959 American Airlines inaugurated scheduled service between New York and Los Angeles ($301 one way). Here are some quotes on distance.

There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things.
     - Hal Borland, 1900 - 1978

In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.
     - Hans Nouwens

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
     - John Burroughs, 1837 - 1921

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
     - John Galsworthy, 1867 - 1933

The distance is nothing; it's only the first step that is difficult.
     - Marquise du Deffand, 1697 - 1780

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
     - Rainer Maria Rilke, 1875 - 1926

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