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David Grann quotes: Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett, and his name was known throughout the world.

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

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

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

David Grann quotes: 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.

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.

David Grann quotes: Many accidents happen to white people because they don't believe their dreams.

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

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

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

David Grann quotes: 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

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

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

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

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

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

David Grann quotes: (Brazilians called the bees "eye lickers.")

(Brazilians called the bees "eye lickers.")

David Grann quotes: Loneliness is not intolerable when enthusiasm for a quest fills the mind.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

David Grann quotes: Much of the discovery of the world was based on failure rather than on successon tactical errors and pipe dreams.

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