Robert Risher

“Days of toil, nights of torture--an explorer's life! Where is the romance now?”
― Ernest Holt

“What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?”
― Michelangelo

“Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“They 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 Grann, The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon