#island

A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every day, yet I can see nothing anywhere but a mass of wet rock, a strip of surf, and then a tumult of waves. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#day #desolation #every #every day #exile

In every island of the Aegean Sea are found abundant traces of a vast prehistoric empire. ↗

— James Theodore Bent

#empire #every #found #island #prehistoric

I had supported Governor George W. Bush over Senator John McCain in the 2000 Rhode Island presidential primary. ↗

— Lincoln Chafee

#george #george w #governor #had #i

I love travelling, and had the pleasure of being in the most developed country in the world and then parts of two of the most pristine natural areas of the world: the Galapagos islands and the Equador Amazon jungle. The contrast was incredible. ↗

— Adam Garcia

#areas #being #contrast #country #developed

The Fallen ∞ Now that it’s over, My worlds forever changed. Without you, I feel empty, All this pain, still remains. ↗

— S.L. Ross

#slross #change

This land is your land, this land is my land, From California to the New York Island. From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me. ↗

— Woody Guthrie

#forest #gulf #gulf stream #island #land

For us Australians, Singapore also represents sacred soil. Almost 2000 Australians died here in the defense of your island country and our neighborhood. ↗

— Michael Jeffery

#also #australians #country #defense #died

I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again. ↗

— Fanny Kemble

#been #daily #i #island #mill

I've got a place in Portugal, which I like very much, but I've just been working in Malaysia for five weeks. My family had a chance to come over and we really loved it, particularly the island of Pangkor. ↗

— Ian Rush

#chance #come #family #five #got

Death Valley is really wide-open - it's bigger than Rhode Island - and it's less a part of California than an ungoverned territory, so there's lots of weird cops-and-robbers stuff going on. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#california #death #going #island #less