Breeding Quote by David Quammen

Islands are natural workshops of evolution.

— Richard Dawkins

Islands are gregarious animals, they decorate the ocean in conveys.

— Stella Benson

Islands are where species go to die.

— David Quammen

“Just as islands—isolated places with unique, rich biodiversity—have relevance for the ecosystems everywhere, so does studying seemingly isolated or overlooked people and events from…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

My love for traveling to islands amounts to a pathological condition known as nesomania, an obsession with islands. This craze seems reasonable to me,…

— Paul Theroux

“An island, on the other hand, is small. There are fewer species, and the competition for survival has never reached anything like the pitch…

— Douglas Adams

Why would an all-powerful creator decide to plant his carefully crafted species on islands and continents in exactly the appropriate pattern to suggest, irresistibly,…

— Richard Dawkins

“The varieties are not like islands, carefully apart,” Perales explained. “They are more like gentle hills in a landscape—you see them, they are clearly…

— Charles C. Mann

An island always pleases my imagination, even the smallest, as a small continent and integral portion of the globe. I have a fancyfor building…

— Henry David Thoreau

Small islands, not capable of protecting themselves, are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something absurd, in…

— Thomas Paine

“were endemic to each island were also three distinct species.”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

The fact is, we are not islands and we are far more connected than we know

— Anonymous