Life Quote by Margot Lee Shetterly

“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

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

— David Quammen

Islands are natural workshops of evolution.

— Richard Dawkins

“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

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

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

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“This island of Earth of ours is finite in resources, including wilderness- particularly wilderness. The dwindling worldwide reservoir of wild lands must be the…

— David Brower

“Everywhere I went in the wild corners of Hawaii, I found that the biology was as astonishing as the beauty. The landscapes have value…

— Cynthia Russ Ramsay

Islands are where species go to die.

— David Quammen

“How, in the first place, did a peripheral island rise from primitive squalor to world domination?”

— Thomas Sowell

“There was nothing but a lonely magnificence of sea and islands”

— Margaret Craven