Journey Quote by David Grann

“… If I tell you that the city toward which my journey tends is discontinuous in space and time, now scattered, now more condensed, you must not believe the search for it can stop. Italo” quote by David Grann — Download Open image

““… If I tell you that the city toward which my journey tends is discontinuous in space and time, now scattered, now more condensed, you must not believe the search for it can stop. Italo””

David Grann

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (10 ratings)

More by David Grann

“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

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

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

Image

I look for stories everywhere.

David Grann

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

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

Image

The way we live history is not the way historians tell history. Our lives are messy and chaotic and bewildering.

David Grann

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

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

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

Image

A lot of the stuff I tweet is out of childlike curiosity.

David Grann

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