Islands
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Islandsare sub-continental landforms that are surrounded by water.
Quotes
[edit]- Fast-anchor'd isle.
- William Cowper,The Task(1785), Book II. The Timepiece, line 151.
- Some regions are likely to be especially affected byclimate change.TheArctic,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 impactsAsianand African megadeltas, due to large populations and high exposure tosea level rise,storm surges, and river flooding. TheIPCC Fourth Assessment Reportconcludes 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,andunequal access to resources,food insecurity,trends in economicglobalization,conflict,and incidence ofdiseasessuch asHIV/AIDS.
- Your isle, which stands
AsNeptune'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
[edit]- Quotes reported inHoyt'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.