Sentence examples for islands inspired from inspiring English sources

The Galapagos islands inspired Darwin's brilliant and remarkably enduring explanation for how species change over time through natural selection, and it was islands - the Solomon Islands in particular - that helped to answer the great question his famous book left unanswered: what, really, is the origin of species?

It's always been assumed that The Coral Island inspired the book, but I think it's possible that it was actually Swallows and Amazons, which my father read aloud to us and I loved.

In a recent design for a six-and-a-half-square-mile development in Dubai called Waterfront City, Koolhaas proposed creating an urban island inspired by a section of Midtown Manhattan.

Those views come at a price, of course: the four-course lunchtime menu runs $195 a person, while the six-course, French-island inspired dinner rings up at $320 a person.

Neruda gave the minuscule town the name "Black Island," inspired by the many volcanic-like rocks that speckle its beaches.

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It is as though living on the limited terra firma of an island inspires people to form incurious metaphorical islands, like the Elks and the other exclusive clubs of the past.

The islands that inspired Charles Darwin's revolutionary theory of evolution have a new champion.

Offer Waterman & Co, London SW10, from 2 November until 1 December Galápagos Artists meditate on the islands that inspired Darwin.

The islands are inspired by the kind of floating peat bogs found in the waters of northern Minnesota and draw upon nature's design to solve human problems.

A hilltop studded with olive trees in the mountainous northern reaches of Corfu, one of Greece's most popular islands, has inspired a restless foreign correspondent to create a haven.