First place Quote by Thomas Sowell

“Because this island is full of inimical phenomena.”

— H.G. Wells

“Wooded islands foregrounded the mainland darkly.”

— Miranda Weiss

“From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes.”

— Aldous Huxley

... everyone knew that all islands were worlds unto themselves, that to come to an island was to come to another world.

— Guy Gavriel Kay

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

— Matt Rasmussen

“Can the potential isolation of living on an island of our own frame of reference be banished by simple concurrences that become the currency…

— Nora Bateson

“Now all the mountains had been conquered and astronauts had walked in space. There were no more islands on earth—no matter how small—left to…

— Paulo Coelho

“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

“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

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

— Tim Hall

What 'Strong Island' does is bring a historical perspective and help people understand that what we're treating as a modern-day phenomenon is actually not…

— Yance Ford

“Islands are emblematic not only of solitude but of refuge and sanctuary, the way a small boat is an island in rough seas.”

— Gretel Ehrlich