Been Quote by Paul Theroux

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

Small islands, not capable of protecting themselves, are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something absurd, in…

— Thomas Paine

No country can be an island unto itself or world unto itself. Not even the biggest country.

— Lee Hsien Loong

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

There is something absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.

— Thomas Paine

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

— Matt Rasmussen

The truth is, until you know any different, the island is enough. Actually, I know different. And it's still enough.

— Maggie Stiefvater

“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

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

These are islands in time - with nothing to date them on the calendar of mankind. In these areas it is as though a…

— Harvey Broome

No man is an island, but some of us are long peninsulas.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

Islands are natural workshops of evolution.

— Richard Dawkins