Island Exploration Prospect

Famous quotes containing the words island, exploration and/or prospect:

    “An island always pleases my imagination, even the smallest, as a small continent and integral portion of the globe. I have a fancy for building my hut on one. Even a bare, grassy isle, which I can see entirely over at a glance, has some undefined and mysterious charm for me.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.”
    —Thornton Wilder (1897–1975)

    “Yet we must try the harder, the less the prospect of success.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)