Commentary Quote by Werner Herzog

“It is a terrible thing to do to unusual people, to drive them so deeply into themselves that each reemergence is a volcanic explosion.”

— Guntram Vesper

“I'm wrong. My house isn't a volcano-I am, and the past two years have created a dormant giant who no longer will tolerate being…

— Katie McGarry

“Well they have to have something to wean Caluntians off Venusian moles. Seems humans are the best therapy, to consume that is. They say…

— Neil Leckman

Nature has a way of deadening us to traumatic events, until we're ready to deal with it. And once you do, it's a volcanic…

— Patricia Montandon

Years ago, it was pretty hard to get people to empathize even a little bit with scaly, cold-blooded critters; now, thanks a lot to…

— Romulus Whitaker

Americans are nature-lovers: but they only admit of nature proofed and corrected by man.

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Stone is a primal matter, inhuman in its duration. Yet despite its incalculable temporality, the lithic is not some vast and alien outside. A…

— Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

“Kingdoms are clay: our dungy earth alike Feeds beast as man.”

— William Shakespeare

Each of us, even the lowliest and most insignificant among us, was uprooted from his innermost existence by the almost constant volcanic upheavals visited…

— Stefan Zweig

We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.

— Aristotle

Nature is very rarely right, to such an extent even, that it might almost be said that nature is usually wrong...

— James Whistler

Nature does not cocker us: we are children, not pets: she is not fond: everything is dealt to us without fear or favor, after…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson