#islands

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The little fishing boat anchors right off the shore of Gili Meno. There are no docks here on this island. You have to roll up your pants, jump off the boat and wade in through the surf on your own power. There's absolutely no way to do this without getting soaking wet or even banged up on the coral, but it's worth all the trouble because the beach here is so beautiful, so special


Elizabeth Gilbert


#beauty

The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.


Andres Segovia


#above #advice #always #am #beautiful

I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.


Parker Stevenson


#blue #california #coast #dark #find

If I read not amiss, this powerful race will move down upon Mexico, down upon Central and South America, out upon the islands of the sea, over upon Africa and beyond. And can any one doubt that the results of this competition of races will be the "survival of the fittest?"


Josiah Strong


#america #amiss #any #beyond #central

When I'm not working, my family and I have a house in the San Juan Islands. We've been here since '94.


Elizabeth Pena


#family #here #house #i #islands

It has been popular to threaten "small islands and low-lying coasts" with scenarios of disastrous future flooding. The Maldives has been the most utilised target. We have undertaken a careful analysis of actual sea level changes in the Maldives. No rise has been recorded either in the present or the past centuries.


Nils-Axel Morner


#analysis #been #careful #centuries #changes

The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4.


Jack Adams


#islands #japanese #may #solomon

On December 5, 1941, Chicago led a task force built around the carrier Lexington to Midway Island, at the western end of the Hawaiian Islands, about 1,000 miles from Pearl Harbor.


Jack Adams


#around #built #carrier #chicago #december

Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the mission was called off on the eve of the attack.


Jack Adams


#called #early #eve #force #gilbert

The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale.


Jack Adams


#attacked #attacks #effect #enterprise #gilbert