Quotes About Islands

Thence a charming, wavering course is pursued still northward through the grandest scenery to Tahkou, Juneau, Chilcat, Glacier Bay, and Sitka, affording fine glimpses of the innumerable evergreen islands, the icy mountain-ranges of the coast, the forests, glaciers, etc. The round trip of two thousand miles is made in about twelve days, and costs about a hundred dollars:

Nearly everyone in the world has appetites and impulses, trigger emotions, islands of selfishness, lusts just beneath the surface.

When I'm not working, my family and I have a house in the San Juan Islands. We've been here since '94.

Denmark is a country built on a commercial fleet. That's basically what we have been doing. We're just a small country of islands, and every family has a sailor.

My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands.

There was nothing but a lonely magnificence of sea and islands

Look at this world! So vast! So wide! Huge masses of land spread across it; multitudes of green and brown islands dotted the blue expanse of the oceans. He felt like a bird contemplating the sky.

The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees...

My goal is to be living back in Canada as soon as I can, hopefully somewhere in the Gulf Islands.

Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.

When first contacted by Europeans, the peoples of New Guinea, northern Australia, and most of the islands of Melanesia such as the Solomon Islands, the New He­ brides, and New Caledonia practiced some degree of warfare cannibalism.

Meaning is like spots of light surrounded by rugged clouds of night, glowing islands.

You laugh as you sing about dying, you drug yourself up, but you can still see clearly, and you die as you break into a fit of laughter, because asi es la vida in this soup of islands stewed in hunger and the desire to be someone else.

Roughly, with every tenfold increase in island size, the number of species you find there doubles.

The rain, which had continued yesterday and last night, ceased this morning. We then proceeded, and after passing two small islands about ten miles further, stopped for the night at Piper's landing, opposite another island.

Mulheres são como ilhas: sempre longe, mas ofuscando todo o mar em redor

A redondura das ilhas, dizia, é o mar que faz. A beleza dessa menina, meu sobrinho, é você que lhe põe. As mulheres são muito extensas, a gente viaja-lhes, a gente sempre se perde.

En este universo de redes liberales poderosas, constuyamos utopías concretas, islotes pensados como abadías de Thelema puntales y reproducibles en todas partes, en todas las ocasiones y circunstancias. Jardines de Epicuro nómadas, construidos desde uno mismo

Não sei se sou eu que vencerei as ilhas, ou elas que me vencerão a mim.

As ilhas são lugares de solidão e nunca isso é tão nítido como quando partem os que apenas vieram de passagem e ficam no cais, a despedir-se, os que vão permanecer. Na hora da despedida, é quase sempre mais triste ficar do que partir e, numa ilha, isso marca uma diferença fundamental, como se houvesse duas espécies de seres humanos: os que vivem na ilha e os que chegam e partem.

Ordnance Survey maps in all their shapes and sizes are the most beautiful manifestation of twentieth-century British functional design. Ever since I can remember, I have spent stolen moments, wasted evenings and secret hours studying the mystery and beauty of the Ordnance Survey maps of these islands. The concrete trig points that had originally been used in their creation became almost as powerful in mystical properties for me as standing stones. ˜ Bill Drummond,

people from islands are different. We have more freedom.

In the rainy season, back home, when the land had given way to water and the buffaloes grew webbed feet, when the hens took to the roofs, when marooned goats teetered on minuscule islands, when the women splashed across on the raised walkway to the cooking hut and found they could no longer kindle a dung-and-husk fire and looked to their reserves, when the rain rang louder than cow bells, rice was the means, the giver of life.

The hostile shore facing the British stretched now from the Friesian Islands in the north