Islands

Cyprus Island from space

Islands are sub-continental landforms that are surrounded by water.

Quotes

• Fast-anchor'd isle.
  • William Cowper, The Task (1785), Book II. The Timepiece, line 151.

• Some regions are likely to be especially affected by climate change.The Arctic, because of the impacts of high rates of projected warming on natural systems and human communities; Africa, because of low adaptive capacity and projected climate change impacts, Small islands, where there is high exposure of population and infrastructure to projected climate change impacts Asian and African megadeltas, due to large populations and high exposure to sea level rise, storm surges, and river flooding. The IPCC Fourth Assessment Report concludes that non-climate stresses can increase vulnerability to climate change by reducing resilience and can also reduce adaptive capacity because of resource deployment towards competing needs. Vulnerable regions face multiple stresses that affect their exposure and sensitivity to various impacts as well as their capacity to adapt. These stresses arise from, for example, current climate hazards, poverty, and unequal access to resources, food insecurity, trends in economic globalization, conflict, and incidence of diseases such as HIV/AIDS.
  • Rajendra K. Pachauri, Nobel Peace Prize Lecture for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 10 December 2007

• Your isle, which stands
  As Neptune's park, ribbed and paled in
  With rocks unscalable, and roaring waters.
  • William Shakespeare, Cymbeline (1611), Act III, scene 1, line 18.

• Summer isles of Eden, lying in dark purple spheres of sea.
  • Alfred Tennyson, Locksley Hall (1835; 1842), 164.

• Island of bliss! amid the subject Seas,
  That thunder round thy rocky coasts, set up,
  At once the wonder, terror, and delight
  Of distant nations; whose remotest shore
  Can soon be shaken by thy naval arm;
  Not to be shook thyself, but all assaults
  Baffling, like thy hoar cliffs the loud sea-wave.
  • James Thomson, The Seasons, Summer (1727), line 1,597.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 401-02.

• From the sprinkled isles,
  Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea.
  • Robert Browning, Clean.

• Beautiful isle of the sea,
  Smile on the brow of the waters.
  • George Cooper, song.

• O, it's a snug little island!
  A right little, tight little island!
  • Thomas Dibdin, The Snug Little Island.

• Sprinkled along the waste of years
  Full many a soft green isle appears:
  Pause where we may upon the desert road,
  Some shelter is in sight, some sacred safe abode.
  • John Keble, The Christian Year, The First Sunday in Advent, Stanza 8.

• Ay, many flowering islands lie
  In the waters of wide Agony.
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lines written among the Euganean Hills, line 66.

• Sark, fairer than aught in the world that the lit skies cover,
  Laughs inly behind her cliffs, and the seafarers mark
  As a shrine where the sunlight serves, though the blown clouds hover, Sark.
  • Algernon Charles Swinburne, Insularum Ocelle.