Abdullah

“Fawcett, who had always found refuge in the natural world, no longer recognized the wilderness of bombed-out villages, denuded trees, craters, and sunbaked skeletons. As Lyne wrote in his diary, “Dante would never have condemned lost souls to wander in so terrible a purgatory.”
― David Grann, The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

“There comes a time when you have to choose between turning the page and closing the book”
― Josh Jameson

“No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.”
― Socrates

“While most of my articles seem unrelated, they typically have one common thread: obsession. They are about ordinary people driven to do extraordinary things—things that most of us would never dare—who get some germ of an idea in their heads that metastasizes until it consumes them.”
― David Grann, The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon