"Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation."

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Source : David Quammen (1996). “The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions”, Vintage

David Quammen

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“To create is not to deform or invent persons and things. It is to tie new relationships between persons and things which are, and as they are.”

Source : Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.14, New York Review of Books
“Most perfect self-understanding is the capability to directly (immediately) transcend dilemma, all problems, all seeking.”
“When was ever honey made with one bee in a hive?”

Source : Thomas Hood (1857). “The poetical works of Thomas Hood”, p.353
“When you really dive into the scriptures it says the kingdom of heaven is inside you. You can feel that because of the way Christ dropped it.”
“That was the day that I promised I'd never sing of love that does not exist. but darling, You are the only exception”
“And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?”
“The morning brought with it, if not a brighter outlook, at least a measure of control, some acceptance. Instinctively, I knew that the new tear in my heart would always ache. That was just going to be a part of me now.”
“England is my wife, America my mistress. It is very good sometimes to get away from one's wife.”

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