Ancient Quote by Frans Lanting

These are islands in time - with nothing to date them on the calendar of mankind. In these areas it is as though a…

— Harvey Broome

Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation.

— David Quammen

“The Galapagos Islands, to give one famous example, remained uninhabited by humans until the nineteenth century, thus preserving their unique menagerie, including their giant…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Long before the advent of what scientists and scholars consider to be the beginning of human civilization, there was an age undreamed of ...…

— Frederick Lenz

Islands are natural workshops of evolution.

— Richard Dawkins

When you're on one of the Caribbean islands, sometimes it's hard to picture how they fit in with the rest, but when you see…

— Chris Hadfield

On the geological time scale, a human lifetime is reduced to a brevity that is too inhibiting to think about deep time. ... Geologists…

— John McPhee

I simply think that there are things in this world that are relics. We have unsettling remnants of Atlantis. They have found things off…

— Stephen King

Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa…

— Louis Leakey

The so-called geologic ages are essentially synonymous with the evolutionary theory of origins. The latter is the anti-God conspiracy of Satan himself.

— Henry M. Morris

“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

Know, oh prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the…

— Robert E. Howard