When I married Wilnelia, one of the first things I wanted to know about Puerto Rico was the quality of the golf courses.
An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed.
It's a very defined area, Newfoundland. It's an island - Labrador is a huge empty space. It's a very defined area with a very few number of people.
When you're on one of the Caribbean islands, sometimes it's hard to picture how they fit in with the rest, but when you see them all joined together like a necklace from space, you see the natural geographic connectedness of them all.
... everyone knew that all islands were worlds unto themselves, that to come to an island was to come to another world.
Most humans were on one big island, to the fairies, and that island was adrift on a sea called I Totally Don’t Care.
Islands in the streams, that is what we are.
We did have that, in the background of the character and the show, 'Mindhorn,' set on the Isle of Man, that every episode they would have to mention the temperate microclimate of the Isle of Man.
The first thing to recognize is how fortunate Ireland is to be an island off the west coast of Europe, and therefore helped by the prevailing winds to escape the effects of acid rain and other problems. We were also lucky not to have had the same kind of industrial revolution and industry as some other countries. Our problem now is to create employment, but to do it in ways that value our environment.
