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Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett, and his name was known throughout the world.

Exploration ... no longer seemed aimed at some outward discovery; rather, it was directed inward ...

Stores gone, post office gone, train gone, school gone, oil gone, boys and girls gone - only thing not gone is graveyard and it git bigger.

Many accidents happen to white people because they don't believe their dreams.

Even today, the Brazilian government estimates that there are more than sixty Indian tribes that have never been contacted by outsiders.

Does God think that, because it is raining, I am not going to destroy the world? - Lope de Aguirre after going mad in the Amazon

An Indian Affairs agent said, 'The question will suggest itself, which of these people are the savages?

You know, I had a lot of romantic notions about the jungle and this kind of finished that

(Brazilians called the bees "eye lickers.")

Loneliness is not intolerable when enthusiasm for a quest fills the mind.

I am getting older and am, I daresay, impatient of lost years and months," Fawcett complained to Keltie in early 1918. Later

Washington Bridge. The components were then lowered into the Thirtieth Street hole by a special crane that could withstand

Starvation sounds almost unbelievable in forest country, and yet it is only too likely to happen. - Percy Harrison Fawcett

Fawcett once described fear as the 'motive power of all evil' which had 'excluded humanity from the Garden of Eden.

Much of the discovery of the world was based on failure rather than on success
on tactical errors and pipe dreams.