I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to… — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
Rising sea levels will result in tens to hundreds of millions more people flooded each year with a warming of 3 or… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
Scots are born exiles, and Scotland the perfect country to be exiled from. Do not imagine that I am running down Scotland.… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
Consider the islands bearing the names of all the saints, bristling with forts like chestnut-burs, or Echinidæ, yet the police will not… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“By the Angel,” Jace said, looking the demon up and down. “I knew Greater Demons were meant to be ugly, but no… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
It is our duty to preserve huge tracts of land in something resembling its native condition. The biological interactions necessary to insure… — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
I suppose that Italy must always lie like some lovely sunken island at the bottom of all passionate dreams, from which at… — Mary Hunter Austin Copy Share Image
I read ' Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were.… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
Not to leave planet Earth would be like castaways on a desert island not trying to escape...Sending humans to other planets ...… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Most religion-mongers have bated their paradises with a bit of toasted cheese. They have tempted the body with large promises of possessions… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Many people just won't connect the social problems with the history of dispossession of the aboriginals. There is one problem with pro-Palestinian… — Amira Hass Copy Share Image
A Marine is a Marine. I set that policy two weeks ago - there's no such thing as a former Marine. You're… — James F. Amos Copy Share Image
Some years ago our Japanese counterparts asked us to resume the discussions of the issue and so we did meeting them halfway.… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
A stone lies in a river; a piece of wood is jammed against it; dead leaves, drifting logs, and branches caked with… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children stories. They were better than that. They just were. Adult stories… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I have a bunch of islands in the Bahamas that we made into this amazing, magical place. And we have these birds;… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
For the long-limbed trees and watery landscape of Vancouver Island, read Hundreds and Thousands. Setting aside, who can resist a woman who… — Marjorie Celona Copy Share Image
Lincoln Chafee, former governor of Rhode Island, announced he's running for president. Before he announced he's running, his wife went on Facebook… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
I wish I could tell you about the South Pacific. The way it actually was. The endless ocean. The infinite specks of… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
By their victory, the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions and other units of the Fifth Amphibious Corps have made an accounting… — Chester W. Nimitz Copy Share Image
“These islands form a backdrop for a culture that transcends time. Life follows its own rhythm on these gems of the sea… — Laura Brooks Copy Share Image
As evening approached, I came down from the heights of the island, and I liked then to go and sit on the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Ten thousand officers and men named Smith died in the First World War. One thousand four hundred Campbells died, six thousand Joneses,… — Kevin Myers Copy Share Image
The Spaniards are perfectly right to govern these barbarians of the New World and adjacent islands; they are in prudence, ingenuity, virtue,… — Juan Gines de Sepulveda Copy Share Image
Water is the formless potential out of which creation emerged. It is the ocean of unconsciousness enveloping the islands of consciousness. Water… — Scott Sanders Copy Share Image
The Welsh are not like any other people in Britain, and they know how separate they are. They are the Celts, the… — Laurie Lee Copy Share Image
A year and a half after the end of the war and the German occupation, Paris was muted and looked bruised and… — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
Ambas and Bobia Islands are perfect gems of beauty. Mondoleh I cannot say I admire. It always looks to me exactly like… — Mary Kingsley Copy Share Image
Mankind has always drawn from outside sources of energy. This island was the first to harness coal and steam. But our present… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
I was once all by myself in a house on Fire Island. Where I compared the original cast recordings of two different… — Paul Rudnick Copy Share Image
Expanding the Toronto Island Airport will undermine the downtown's economy and liveability and intensify pollution and smog from Oshawa to Oakville. I… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
3 people get stranded on a remote Island A Banker, a Daily Mail reader & an Asylum seeker All they have to… — Christopher Brookmyre Copy Share Image
In this particular tub, two knees jut up like icebergs, while minute brown hairs rise on arms and legs in a fringe… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Let me tell you something: if you're on an island for three and a half months and you're four and a half… — Christopher Atkins Copy Share Image
Of all the delectable islands the Neverland is the snuggest and most compact, not large and sprawly, you know, with tedious distances… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Maybe 23 cents doesn't sound like a lot to someone with a Swiss bank account, Cayman Island Investments and an IRA worth… — Lilly Ledbetter Copy Share Image
Content isn't king. If I sent you to a desert island and gave you the choice of taking your friends or your… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
In the infancy of civilization, when our island was as savage as New Guinea, when letters and arts were still unknown to… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“People still said that “The Sun Never Sets on the British Empire,” even though the Commonwealth was starting to come apart. In… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater Two Copy Share Image
I devoured TV - everything from Super Friends in the morning to Dukes of Hazzard and The Love Boat and Fantasy Island… — Justin Theroux Copy Share Image
