Many accidents happen to white people because they don't believe their dreams.
David GrannThey marched like madmen from place to place, until overcome by exhaustion and lack of strength they could no longer move from one side to the other, and they remained there, wherever this sad siren voice had summoned them, self-important, and dead.
David GrannStarvation sounds almost unbelievable in forest country, and yet it is only too likely to happen. - Percy Harrison Fawcett
David GrannExploration...no longer seemed aimed at some outward discovery; rather, it was directed inward...
David GrannDuring the Society's early years, no member personified the organization's eccentricities or audacious mission more than Sir Francis Galton. A cousin of Charles Darwin's, he had been a child prodigy who, by the age of four, could read and recite Latin. He went on to concoct myriad inventions. They included a ventilating top hat; a machine called a Gumption-Reviver, which periodically wet his head to keep him awake during endless study; underwater goggles; and a rotating-vane steam engine. Suffering from periodic nervous breakdowns––"sprained brain," as he called it––he had a compulsion to measure and count virtually everything. He quantified the sensitivity of animal hearing, using a walking stick that could make an inconspicuous whistle; the efficacy of prayer; the average age of death in each profession (lawyers: 66.51; doctors: 67.04); the exact amount of rope needed to break a criminal's neck while avoiding decapitation; and levels of boredom (at meetings of the Royal Geographical Society he would count the rate of fidgets among each member of the audience).
David Grann...much of the discovery of the world was based on failure rather than on success--on tactical errors and pipe dreams.
David GrannDoes 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 GrannMots clés rain madness anger faithfulness amazon
Years later, another member [of the Royal Geographical Society] conceded, "Explorers are not, perhaps, the most promising people with whom to build a society. Indeed, some might say that explorers become explorers precisely because they have a streak of unsociability and a need to remove themselves at regular intervals as far as possible from their fellow men.
David GrannMots clés explorers
You know, I had a lot of romantic notions about the jungle and this kind of finished that
David GrannMots clés amazon
Fawcett agreed that El Dorado, with its plethora of gold, was an “exaggerated romance,” but he was not ready to dismiss the chronicles altogether
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