Ants Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Without stories of progress, the world has become a terrifying place. The ruin glares at us with the horror of its abandonment. It’s not…

— Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

Islands are natural workshops of evolution.

— Richard Dawkins

Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are…

— Terence McKenna

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

“Surely it is obvious enough, if one looks at the whole world, that it is becoming daily better cultivated and more fully peopled than…

— Tertullian

“The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business…

— Sylvain Neuvel

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

Woods and forests have been essentialt to the imagination of these islands, and of countries throughout the world, for centuries. It is for this…

— Robert Macfarlane

In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed…

— Shimon Peres

“Who will bear witness to these small islands and oases of wildness as land is divided and sold to become strip malls, housing developments,and…

— Joni L. James

“I did not deliberately invent Earthsea, I did not think ‘Hey wow — islands are archetypes and archipelagoes are superarchetypes and let’s build us…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Human societies as temporally and spatially far-flung as the Mesopotamians, Mayans, and Easter Islanders likely came to ruin by expanding beyond the capacity of…

— William E. Rees