When I searched ‘together’ to find an image for this simple, striking quotation, I was struck by how many photos of couples it yielded.  One of the great togethernesses, of course, but far from being the only one.

‘Alone nothing, together everything: that is one of the governing facts.’

See also the quote rich mosaic review of this magnificent, entrancing book: a love letter to islands and a paean to the sea. 

Source: Adam Nicolson, Sea Room: An Island Life (London: Harper Collins, 2013 (2002)), p. 257

Photo credit: John Robert Marasigan at unsplash.com