Nancy Bird Walton Professions : Aviator Born : October 16, 1915 Died : January 13, 2009 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Nancy Bird Walton I think, just the exhilaration of flying. The freedom of the air. The freedom of flight. And you completely remove yourself from the world. And you can voluntarily remove yourself from all those...everything that's near and dear to you. And you voluntarily return. Nancy Bird Walton motivation air thinking The beauty of the air, from the air... You haven't seen Australia unless you see it from the air. The coastline, the colours of the inland. The claypans, the forests. It's just all so beautiful. You'd never see that from the road. People climb mountains to see these things. You see that every time you take off. Nancy Bird Walton nature beautiful beauty Other women who flew were women of independent means. But I had to do something with it. Nancy Bird Walton flew independent mean As a four-year-old, my mother told me I was climbing the fence, jumping off and calling myself an 'eppyplane'... I bought books on aeroplanes, I followed everything in the newspapers about aeroplanes. Amy Johnson flew to Australia in 1930 - why couldn't I do something like that? Nancy Bird Walton jumping mother book Similar Authors Amy Johnson aviator Amelia Earhart aviator Alexander P. de Seversky aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont aviator Bessie Coleman aviator Dieter F. Uchtdorf aviator All Authors