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“Australia is an island surrounded by water. My fondest memories growing up were trips to the beach, walking around the harbour and playing in the beautiful parks.”

Beautiful Water Memories Growing Up Growing Walking Beach Islands Parks Australia Harbors

Author:Tammin Sursok

“A ship's engine far away on the water expands the summer-night horizon. Both joy and sorrow swell in the dew's magnifying glass. Without really knowing, we divine; our life has a sister ship, following quietly another route. While the sun blazes behind the islands.”

“The chief character in this narrative is the Caribbean Sea, one of the world's most alluring bodies of water, a rare gem among the oceans, defined by the islands that form a chain of lovely jewels to the north and east”

World Character Body Form Water Sea Ocean East Lovely Chains Defined Chiefs Narrative Islands Jewels Gems Caribbean Alluring Bodies Of Water

Book:Caribbean: A Novel

Source: Caribbean: A Novel

“Harbour Island in the Bahamas is beautiful, with turquoise water and pink sand.”

Beautiful Water Islands Sand Harbour Turquoise Bahamas

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“Confronted by too much emptiness ... the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely a shimmering?”

Has Beens Water Brain Company Too Much Loneliness Pursuit Islands Emptiness Thirst Sailor

Author:Margaret Atwood

“The island is in Kenya, the water is in Uganda... But the [Luos, a Kenyan ethnic group] are mad, they want to fish here but this is Uganda.”

Want Water Groups Mad Fishes Islands Kenya Uganda Ethnic Groups

Author:Yoweri Museveni

“The undersea world surrounding Green Island looks just like a water fairyland.”

World Looks Water Green Islands Undersea

Author:Mehgan Heaney-Grier

“the islands of Italy combine all the elements - fire, water, earth, and air - and that is irresistible.”

Earth Water Fire Air Elements Islands Irresistible

Book:The Islands of Italy: Sicily, Sardinia, and the Aeolian Islands

Source: The Islands of Italy: Sicily, Sardinia, and the Aeolian Islands

“Ambas and Bobia Islands are perfect gems of beauty. Mondoleh I cannot say I admire. It always looks to me exactly like one of those flower-stands full of ferns and plants - the sort you come across in drawing rooms at home, with wire-work legs. I do not mean that Mondoleh has wire-work legs under water, but it looks as if it might have.”

Ifs Looks Mean Home Might Water Perfect Rooms Flower Plant Legs Drawing Admire Islands Wire Gems Ferns

Author:Mary Kingsley

“I candidly confess that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States. The control which, with Florida, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico, and the countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being.”

Giving Wells Made Country States Political Water Interesting Flow Well Being Islands Mexico Florida Cuba Most Interesting Gulf Of Mexico

Book:Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States

Source: Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States

“When the inhabitants of some sequestered island first descry the "big canoe" of the European rolling through the blue waters towards their shores, they rush down to the beach in crowds, and with open arms stand ready to embrace the strangers. Fatal embrace! They fold to their bosoms the vipers whose sting is destined to poison all their joys; and the instinctive feeling of love within their breasts is soon converted into the bitterest hate.”

Source: The Complete Works of Herman Melville: Adventure Classics, Sea Tales, Philosophical Works, Short Stories, Poetry & Essays: Moby-Dick, Typee, Omoo, Redburn, White-Jacket, Pierre, Israel Potter, The Piazza Tales, John Marr and Other Sailors…

“Begin with loss and see how the world contradicts you, how the horizon implies that beyond it the water is not empty but full of ships all docking at another island.”

World Hope Water Loss Empty Ships Islands Horizon

Book:Oblique light

Source: Oblique light

“Much of the attention on oceans has portrayed oceans as a villain. Warm water strengthened Hurricane Katrina that pounded Louisiana. Rising sea level will flood islands and coastal areas. Or, we're talking about new opportunities like a new shipping lane in the Arctic because of melting sea ice. These may be the obvious problems, but they're probably not the biggest ones.”

“And at ten, or whatever time, in the morning we had the press conference, what we knew is there had been an incident at Three Mile Island, that it was shut down, that there was water that had escaped but it was contained.”

Three Water Morning Ten Presses Miles Islands Conferences Incidents Press Conferences Three Mile Island

Author:William Scranton