When I was teaching a high school course on insular ecology, I recalled the words of the seventeenth-century English poet John Donne, "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.
我在學校教「島嶼生態學」這門課程時，想到早期十七世紀英國詩人 John Donne（但恩）的一首詩說：沒有人是一座孤島，可以把自己隔離，你我都只是大陸的一部分。