Barren Quote by William Dampier

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

For which reason the sea in those parts is impassable and impenetrable, because there is a shoal of mud in the way; and this…

— Critias

It's a poorboy sanditch,' Roland said. 'With lots of mayo, whatever that is. I'd want a sauce that didn't look quite so much like…

— Stephen King

What was incredible about the Maldives was that the entire island we were on consisted of sand. There didn't seem to be any dirt.…

— KT Tunstall

What is the good of being an island, if you are not a volcanic island?

— Wyndham Lewis

The desert feels Irish in a way - lonely and barren.

— Donal Logue

To have a beautiful sandy beach in Scotland seems like such a contradiction.

— Mary McCartney

“All Carolina folk are crazy for mayonnaise, mayonnaise is as ambrosia to them, the food of their tarheeled gods. Mayonnaise comforts them, causes the…

— Tom Robbins

“The varieties are not like islands, carefully apart,” Perales explained. “They are more like gentle hills in a landscape—you see them, they are clearly…

— Charles C. Mann

Strictly speaking, the land does not exist; it is merely dehydrated sea.

— Alan Coren

To render aid to the worthless is sheer waste. Rain does not freshen the Dead Sea, but only enables it to dissolve more salt.

— George Iles

If you look at the United States, most of the country is pretty much uninhabited.

— Robert J. Sawyer