Quote by David Grann Download Open image ““Hints to Travellers,”” — David Grann ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going. Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“Remember always that you are just a visitor here, a traveler passing through. Your stay is but short and the moment of your departure… — Dhammavadaka Copy Share Image
“Perhaps one of my favorite things about travelling is getting to mark and observe other readers.” — Rachel Heffington Copy Share Image
“Many travelers are essentially fantasists. Tourists are timid fantasists, the others - risk takers - are bold fantasists.” — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by the knowing of their destination” — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
You think of travellers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth of passing the… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“I had once read a book that said a traveler should always have one and it made a lot of sense.” — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
“Travel is about the people you get to meet and the moments you get to share with them... Travel is about dissolving and melting… — Elena Levon Copy Share Image
“To believe that the Osages survived intact from their ordeal is a delusion of the mind. What has been possible to salvage has been… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“Over the next two decades, the Osage were forced to cede nearly a hundred million acres of their ancestral land, ultimately finding refuge in… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“Only in the mid-nineteenth century, after the growth of industrial cities and a rash of urban riots—after dread of the so-called dangerous classes surpassed… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“Emmett White became a firm, even unyielding, sheriff. Still, he showed remarkable consideration toward the people in his custody and insisted on making arrests… — David Grann Copy Share Image
My mother doesn't need much sleep. At any hour of the night, you'd wake up, and she'd be reading. She'd read five, six books… — David Grann Copy Share Image
The way we live history is not the way historians tell history. Our lives are messy and chaotic and bewildering. — David Grann Copy Share Image
“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.… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“Does God think that, because it is raining, I am not going to destroy the world? - Lope de Aguirre after going mad in… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“In 1804, a delegation of Osage chiefs met with Jefferson at the White House. He told the navy secretary that the Osage, whose warriors… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“Instead, the terrain looked like Nebraska—perpetual plains that faded into the horizon. When I asked Taukane where the forest was, he said, simply, “Gone.” — David Grann Copy Share Image
