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“First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used in the English language before. It's astonishing. It pours out of him.”

Firsts Used Language English Language Astonishing Volcanoes Eruption Volcanic Eruptions

Author:Stephen Greenblatt

“A map of the moon... should be in every geological lecture room; for no where can we have a more complete or more magnificent illustration of volcanic operations. Our sublimest volcanoes would rank among the smaller lunar eminences; and our Etnas are but spitting furnaces.”

Should Science Rooms Moon Operations Maps Magnificent Lectures Illustration Volcanoes Furnaces Eminence

Author:James Dwight Dana

“A volcano may be considered as a cannon of immense size.”

May Size Immense Volcanoes Cannons

Book:A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature

Source: A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature

“Various accounts of Empedocle's death are given in ancient sources. His enemies said that his desire to be thought a god led him to throw himself into the crater of Mount Etna so that he might vanish from the world completely and thus lead men to believe he had achieved apotheosis. Unfortunately the volcano defeated his design by throwing out one of the philosopher's sandals.”

Men World Believe Said Might Science Death Desire Given Enemy Design Source Accounts Ancient Philosopher Various Throwing Defeated Volcanoes Sandals Craters Apotheosis

Author:Empedocles

“Liza poured thick batter from a pitcher onto a soapstone griddle. The hot cakes rose like little hassocks, and small volcanoes formed and erupted on them until they were ready to be turned. A cheerful brown, they were, with tracings of darker brown. And the kitchen was full of the good sweet smell of them.”

Littles Food Ready Sweet Hot Rose Smell Kitchen Brown Cake Thick Cheerful Pitcher Volcanoes Tracing

Author:John Steinbeck

“Desire is storm, greed is whirlpool, pride is precipice, attachment is avalanche, ego is volcano. Discard desire and you are liberated.”

Desire Pride Ego Greed Storm Attachment Liberated Volcanoes Precipice Avalanches Whirlpools

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.”

Range Flames Exhausted Parliament Volcanoes Flicker

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)

“It would be idle to say that we were not, from time to time, aware that a volcano slumbered fitfully beneath us. There were dark sides to the Slavery Question, for master, as for slave.”

Would Be Sides Dark Masters Slavery Slave Idle Dark Side Volcanoes

Author:Mary Virginia Terhune

“Three of the four elements are shared by all creatures, but fire was a gift to humans alone. Smoking cigarettes is as intimate as we can become with fire without immediate excruciation. Every smoker is an embodiment of Prometheus, stealing fire from the gods and bringing it on back home. We smoke to capture the power of the sun, to pacify Hell, to identify with the primordial spark, to feed on the marrow of the volcano. It’s not the tobacco we’re after but the fire. When we smoke, we are performing a version of the fire dance, a ritual as ancient as lightning.”

“The name Alaska is probably an abbreviation of Unalaska, derived from the original Aleut word agunalaksh, which means "the shores where the sea breaks its back." The war between water and land is never-ending. Waves shatter themselves in spent fury against the rocky bulwarks of the coast; giant tides eat away the sand beaches and alter the entire contour of an island overnight; williwaw winds pour down the side of a volcano like snow sliding off a roof, building to a hundred-mile velocity in a matter of minutes and churning the ocean into a maelstrom where the stoutest vessels founder.”

Source: Where the Sea Breaks Its Back: The Epic Story - Georg Steller & the Russian Exploration of AK

“What makes human power erupt like a volcano? What destroy's it? The civilizations of Rome, Greece, Egypt, China were all eruptions from a human core.”

Humans Power Civilization China Core Rome Egypt Greece Volcanoes Eruption Human Power

Book:Autobiography of values

Source: Autobiography of values

“I wish to be an inspector of volcanoes. I want to study cloud formations and memorize the wind and learn by heart the habits of the ponderosa pine.”

Want Heart Wish Nature Study Wind Habit Clouds Formation Volcanoes Inspectors

Author:Edward Abbey

“Whenever I look at a mountain I always expect it to turn into a volcano.”

Looks Turns Nature Mountain Volcanoes

Book:Further Confessions of Zeno

Source: Further Confessions of Zeno

“But space travel can't ease the pressure on a planet grown too crowded not even with today's ships and probably not with any future ships-because stupid people won't leave the slopes of their home volcano even when it starts to smoke and rumble. What space travel does do is drain off the best brains: those smart enough to see a catastrophe before it happens, and with the guts to pay the price-abandon home, wealth, friends, relatives, everything-and go. That's a tiny fraction of one percent. But that's enough.”

“She touched my hand what a chill I got, her lips are like a volcano that's hot.”

Hands Sex Hot Lips Touched Chill Volcanoes

Author:Elvis Presley