Phoenix Islands/history of The Islands

Famous quotes containing the words phoenix, islands and/or history:

    “A victorious tomcat is like a tiger; a plucked phoenix is not worth a chicken.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “we are so many
    and many within themselves
    travel to far islands but no one
    asks for their story....”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    “Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower in a truth. It is astonishing how few facts of importance are added in a century to the natural history of any animal. The natural history of man himself is still being gradually written.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)