Quote by Michael Ziegler

“Wooded islands foregrounded the mainland darkly.”

— Miranda Weiss

“No island is an island, he said. There is no new land, just the same body broken open.”

— Matt Rasmussen

“Some islands are actually the tips of underwater mountains”

— Adam Anderson

“A month in and it seemed to CY that he was an explorer summiting the foothill of an a bizarre and primitive island.”

— Sarah Hall

“The sun, coming hard around the world: the island rises from the sea, sinks, rises, holds.”

— Peter Matthiessen

“You must love the land, my children, and ring it in with your love. For the land is the most precious thing on this…

— Wu Ming-Yi

“This is how we look out for our own Big Island style.”

— Toby Neal

“Whoever said that thing about how no man is an island probably doesn't live on one.”

— Tim Hall

“Somewhere, I am sure, a calm, quiet place awaits me where I may do something worthwhile again. Another island, perhaps. Or a little cottage…

— Roger Rosenblatt

“No man is an island,” he says. “Islands are made of dirt and rocks and trees. I don’t know any people made of such…

— Andrew Shaffer

“And the boat and the dock and the gravel on the shore, the trees sky-pointed or crouching, leaning out over the water, the complicated…

— Alice Munro

“One of those Caribbean islands.”

— J.T. Ellison