Quotes Tagged With :pacific

Vast tracts of ocean, whether Polynesia, Micronesia or Melanesia, contain island populations that remain....

All things in Fiji are paid for in blood.

Though it was mid-July, the morning was brisk, the sky a gray cotton of clouds, and Puget Sound a steely,....

We need a new ethic of place, one that has room for salmon and skyscrapers, suburbs and wilderness, Mount....

Maybe I'd die. Maybe I'd burn to ash in wind, or blacken like the pines. Charred skeletons, I'd add one....

It may seem contradictory, but in the languid tropics one spends more time contemplating those great....

I asked God "Why, why, why?" I turned my face away and wished that I were imagining it all. I had tasted....

I refuse to sit and wait for salvation. Every day I have looked to the sky for the white streak of a....

His introduction throws me. The only time I can envision "Hi, I'm a surgeon" as a fitting introduction....

As the sun disappeared below the horizon and its glare no longer reflected off a glassy sea, I thought....