Mainlands

Trade and markets have nothing to do with it, a communist island will likely do as well as a free market islands and communist mainlands as well as free market mainlands, because it is abundant natural resources that creates wealth, not comparative advantage and trade. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I have spent an hour on "Google" and have found many many reports in resent months of this problem not only in California but along the whole border, and even on both mainlands. ❋ Unknown (2008)

We'll need nuclear power for getting ocean water free from salt and pumping it to mainlands, for example. ❋ Unknown (2008)

There are no amphibians, despite adequate water and the arid-adapted species present on the nearby African and Arabian mainlands. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The species of animals which inhabit the sea on opposite sides of the isthmus of Panama are wholly distinct8 the animals and plants which inhabit islands are commonly distinct from those of the neighbouring mainlands, and yet have a similarity of aspect. ❋ Unknown (2007)

RANGEL: My response is when governor of Virgin Islands tells me and the I.S. agrees that they have a lesser degree of Statue of Liberty than we have on the mainlands, and they ask me to equalize it, you bet your life I did. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Whatever we might say about evolution on the mainlands, we would not call it rapid or, in most cases, precise. ❋ David Quammen (2004)

The line then follows that outer limit south-westerly to its intersection with the line of equidistance between the Australian and New Zealand mainlands giving half-effect to Three Kings Island. ❋ Unknown (2004)

But the ratite lineage in general, with its heritage of gigantism and flightlessness, is relictual on Australia, New Guinea, and New Zealand and was until recently on Madagascar, having held out in those places while long ago disappearing from the mainlands. ❋ David Quammen (2004)

Simberloff knows, better than most of us, that the same sort of thing is happening on islands and mainlands all over the world. ❋ David Quammen (2004)

Yes, the theory brought fresh insight to the ecology of islands; but still more significant, Simberloff added, was that it also addressed insularized habitats on the mainlands. ❋ David Quammen (2004)

One aspect of the revolution was a heightened awareness that insularity can occur under natural conditions on the mainlands: a mountaintop, a lake, a tract of wood-land surrounded by meadow. ❋ David Quammen (2004)

Not because islands were so important, but because The Theory of Island Biogeography brought the island biogeography paradigm to the mainlands. ❋ David Quammen (2004)

Because he knows that the mainlands are going, going, gone, the world is in pieces, and reality conforms to a new model. ❋ David Quammen (2004)

Possibly they were incapable of defending themselves against the canine and feline predators that had arisen on the mainlands. ❋ David Quammen (2004)

Islands are distinct from mainlands in that they represent simplified, exaggerated versions of… of exactly those evolutionary processes that occur on mainlands. ❋ David Quammen (2004)

But the limits and imperatives it does flout are only those with which we happen to be most familiar—those governing biological normality on the mainlands. ❋ David Quammen (2004)

Proximity of each island to either the Rockies or the Sierra, the habitat mainlands, signified zilch. ❋ David Quammen (2004)

A mainlander can be a [devil] or a good person, [it depends] [on who] you meet in life. ❋ Why Do U Care What I'm Called (2020)

Those damn mainlander....[piss off] or [crash] your [BMW] and die! ❋ Gaven (2006)

hey is that another subhuman mainlander take a shit inside a shopping mall? the [gurkha] regiment should come back [to hong kong] and [close up] our borders from these mainlander fucks ❋ Aryan Male (2010)

I'm [off back] [to The] [Mainland]. ❋ Faxx (2007)

gongchandang: "[Love live] [the People's Republic of China]!" [other guy]: "wtf is that mainlander doing" ❋ Gimme The Money (2017)

Those [haole's] from the mainland [drove me] [back home]. ❋ Hawaiian Jew (2004)

"[God damn] mainlanders..." ❋ David456 (2007)

[John]: [I can’t] [believe] your a Mainlander ❋ The Light Blue Caterpie (2018)

"Yo we've been [hiking] for a while [wana] go back to [mainland]?" "Yeah let's head back dude" ❋ Jamesgnu802 (2014)

"Do you see that azn guy right there he has a Louis [Vuitton] bag and [Yeezies]" "Bro he's probably a [mainland Chinese]" ❋ JisungPwark (2019)