Economic Quote by Jared Diamond

Like Magellan, let us find our islands To die in, far from home, from anywhere Familiar. Let us risk the wildest places, Lest we…

— Mary Oliver

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

Planet Earth is our shared island, let us join forces to protect it

— Ban Ki-moon

Islands are where species go to die.

— David Quammen

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

— Anonymous

Everything is connected. There is no such thing as an island, especially in our world, global village, the whole thing. Pollution from way across…

— Alix Kates Shulman

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

Islands are going to suffer from climate change in very, very difficult ways. And it's not just Pacific islands. It's not just Puerto Rico.

— Brian Schatz

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize

— Hank Johnson

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

“Vast tracts of ocean, whether Polynesia, Micronesia or Melanesia, contain island populations that remain outside the modern world. They know about it, they may…

— Andrew Rayner