Building Quote by 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

An island can be dreadful for someone from outside. Everything is complete, and everyone has his obstinate, sure and self-sufficient place. Within their shores,…

— Tove Jansson

From time to time, it is worth wandering around the fuzzy border regions of what you do, if only to remind yourself that no…

— Julian Baggini

“As time went by, I realized that the particular place I'd chose was less important than the fact that I'd chosen a place and…

— Richard Nelson

Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things...

— Agatha Christie

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

For a small island [Great Britain], the place is remarkably diverse.

— William Golding

Of all the delectable islands the Neverland is the snuggest and most compact, not large and sprawly, you know, with tedious distances between one…

— Anonymous

We're all intrigued, in our civilized world that we live in, and curious about how we would get on, on an undiscovered island that…

— Tom Hiddleston

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

— Stella Benson

I think anything I do will have an island feel, but I don't want it to be just that; I don't want to be…

— Tessanne Chin

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

— David Quammen