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Islands Quotes by John Muir
- How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! To behold this alone is worth the pains of any excursion a thousand times over. The…
- Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on seas and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.
- This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is…
- When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing…
- The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is…
More Islands Quotes
- Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of the Philippines.… — Benigno Aquino III
- Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead… — Gerry Adams
- The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4. — Jack Adams
- Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the… — Jack Adams
- Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep. — Dave Barry
- More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose… — Cecil Beaton
- This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and… — Aneurin Bevan
- If the people of New Zealand want to be part of our world, I believe they should hop off their islands, and… — Lewis Black
- If September 11th has taught us anything, it's certainly that the world has never been so interdependent. It is impossible now to… — Bono
- It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad. — David R. Brower
- Places I've lived since then had to have some kind of uniqueness and character about them. And logically Key West, and then… — Jimmy Buffett
- Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow. — Richard Burton