Eruption Quote by Henry Ward Beecher

I watch the Eruptions. Mount Dad, long dormant, now considered armed and dangerous. Mount Saint Mom, oozing lava, spitting flame. Warn the villagers to…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

Pride is like the beautiful acacia, that lifts its head proudly above its neighbor plants-forgetting that it too, like them, has its roots in…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

“Maybe it is not the destructiveness of the volcano that pleases most, though everyone loves a conflagration, but its defiance of the law of…

— Susan Sontag

“Here, the sea strains to climb up on the land and the wind blows dust in a single direction. The trees bend themselves all…

— Judy Grahn

It is the greatest and the tallest of trees that the gods bring low with bolts and thunder. For the gods love to thwart…

— Herodotus

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

— Italo Svevo

“Olive trees grow in the same climate and soil conditions as grapes. The olive oil people have been up in Napa Valley all along,…

— Mary Roach

Pride is a sweetmeat, to be savoured in small pieces; it makes for a poor feast.

— Laurie R. King

What is the good of being an island, if you are not a volcanic island?

— Wyndham Lewis

The tops of mountains are among the unfinished parts of the globe, whither it is a slight insult to the gods to climb and…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Andrea Gibson

Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton