Green Islands

Famous quotes containing the words green and/or islands:

“the absolute flight and rest
The universal blue
And local green suggest.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line—the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. It was a phase of this problem that caused the Civil War.”
—W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt)