Not On Any Map Quotes

“Nature, in such a fertile place, was recovering much more quickly than the people who lived beneath her blossoming trees or beside her immaculate waters. People, it turned out, were not as ripe for transformation as the plants. Sometimes a picture needs those thousand words.”
― Margie Smith Holt, Not On Any Map: One Virgin Island, Two Catastrophic Hurricanes, and the True Meaning of Paradise

“Paradise in its truest form may be a state of mind to which you can always go back; but paradise, the place, is under siege.”
― Margie Smith Holt, Not On Any Map: One Virgin Island, Two Catastrophic Hurricanes, and the True Meaning of Paradise