"This is not a journey to be lightly undertaken, for a wilderness island is what one brings to it. It is a confrontation with one's self, and this can be both terrifying and infinitely rewarding. One is apt to lose himself and find that he can never be quite the same again.  He may lose himself to pure ecstasy strolling a deserted beach through flashing clouds of sea birds on Cumberland Island, and on another day, storm tossed, when the rain is like a whiplash and the surf roars in with savage fury, he may lose himself in the infinite sorrow of life, in the cry of heart wrenching poignancy washed in from a thousand unseen shores by the mewing of grieving gulls."

- Betsy Fancher, The Lost Legacy of Georgia's Golden Isles