Solitary Island Nature

Famous quotes containing the words solitary, island and/or nature:

    “Behold her, single in the field,
    Yon solitary Highland Lass!”
    —William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

    “Know that, on the right hand of the Indies, there is an island called California, very near to the Terrestrial Paradise, which was peopled with black women.... Their arms were all of gold.”
    —For the State of California, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “You know how Utamaro’s beauties sought
    The end of love in their all-speaking braids.
    Alas! Have all the barbers lived in vain
    That not one curl in nature has survived?”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)