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“The most spectacular example of continental drift and tectonic plate movement has to be the Indian Plate, a triangle of geomorphic crust which aeons…

— Charles Allen

[T]here are depths of thousands of miles which are hidden from our inquiry. The only tidings we have from those unfathomable regions are by…

— Oliver Goldsmith

We haven't seen a real volcanic event at least in 74,000 years - [Mount Toba] in Indonesia, in Sumatra, where the crater itself is…

— Werner Herzog

“The Himalayas are the crowning achievement of the Indo-Australian plate. India in the Oligocene crashed head on into Tibet, hit so hard that it…

— John McPhee

Long, long ago, before eruptions were invented, the molten lava had to be carried down the mountainside, bucket by bucket, and poured over the…

— Dave Barry

“As the Moslems advanced into India native culture receded farther and farther south; and towards the end of these Middle Ages the finest achievements…

— Will Durant

Ninety-nine and nine-tenths of the earth’s volume must forever remain invisible and untouchable. Because more than 97 per cent of it is too hot…

— Reginald Aldworth Daly

Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called…

— Jules Verne

“The Ganges, though flowing from the foot of Vishnu and through Siva's hair, is not an ancient stream. Geology, looking further than religion, knows…

— E.M. Forster

“A far cicada rings high and clear over the river’s heavy wash. Morning glory, a lone dandelion, cassia, orchids. So far from the nearest…

— Peter Matthiessen

Remind me that the most fertile lands were built by the fires of volcanoes.

— Andrea Gibson

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

— Oliver Goldsmith