Parenting Quote by Nathaniel Philbrick

“Sometimes the isle was thick with savages, with whom we fought, sometimes full of dangerous animals that hunted us, but in all my fancies…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“The whole island was stained in blood and haunted with the dead. Horror stories lay beneath every square foot of this awful place, and…

— John Dixon Phoenix Island

“No one [Islanders] trod easily upon the emotions of another where the sea licked everywhere against an endless shoreline. And this was excellent and…

— David Guterson

“Wooded islands foregrounded the mainland darkly.”

— Miranda Weiss

“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

“Where once there were deep forests and blue rivers and streams, the island was a barren land now. The forests were gone. The rivers…

— Sudha Murty

“But the great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes.…

— Willa Cather

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

— Thomas Sowell

“Who would want to be the prey in a world full of hunters? ~Disarming(Reign of Blood #2)”

— Alexia Purdy

“Thus it is that they whom we denominate "savages" are made to deserve the title. When the inhabitants of some sequestered island first descry…

— Herman Melville

“He sits aloof from the rest of the family, an inaccessible island with a rocky shoreline. You cannot make landfall on your own. You…

— Peter Godwin

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

— Margaret Craven