Bojan Furst - On ferryboats

 

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“Nothing seems further from the image of a majestic peak reaching towards the heavens, than

the self-enclosed space of an island, or a garden. The former, transcendent, awe-inspiring,

sublime; the latter Edenic, tranquil, serene.”

Domesticating High Places

Mount Athos: Botanical ‘Garden of the Virgin’

Veronica della Dora, High Places, 2009 I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd

 

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‘Living on an island gives you a defined border; lines on maps are

arbitrary, beaches and cliffs are not.’

 

Jeremy Paxel

Quoted in K. Dodds and S. Royle, ‘Introduction:

rethinking islands’, Journal of Historical

Geography  29 (2003), p. 487.