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

“No man is an island,' said John Donne. I feel we are all islands -- in a common sea.”

“Am going to cross Pacific on a wooden raft to support a theory that the South Sea islands were peopled from Peru. Will you come? I guarantee nothing but a free trip to Peru and the South Sea islands and back, but you will find good use for your technical abilities on the voyage. Reply at once.'Next day the following telegram arrived from Torstein:COMING. TORSTEIN.”

“Most humans were on one big island, to the fairies, and that island was adrift on a sea called I Totally Don’t Care.”

“We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.”

“Don't they look like ancient island princesses, marked out for sacrifice? Sent away for the sake of the islanders, to be given to the sea?”