Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Richard Bach, 1970
A seagull leaves his flock's scavenging for the discipline of flight, and finds that speed, freedom and perfection are spiritual problems.
Richard Bach
Richard Bach served as a U.S. Air Force pilot; the book's aerobatics come from cockpit experience rather than research.
Feels like freedom, hope and wonder.
The fastest thing in the sky turns out not to be a number.
You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn’t flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn’t have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there. Books by Richard Bach
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