Emily Dickinson Quotes

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

At the same time, there's something magnificent about volcanoes; they created the atmosphere that we need for breathing.

She knew too much. -A

People never believe in volcanoes until the lava actually overtakes them.

A secret is powerful when it is empty.

I go where the sound of thunder is.

Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance.

He who keeps his own counsel keeps his affairs in his own hands.

The different forces, however, which are doing secret service work, or investigation of different kinds are not the parts of the government which it would seem wise to me to consolidate. There have grown up under various forms of government in different parts of the world, secret investigation branches under one head, and they times have practically superseded all the other arms of the government and have spread terror among the population …. As long as they remain separate there will, however, be no danger of a secret octopus growing up to control in harmful ways.

I know things, but I shut my mouth. They don't want me to speak, so I don't speak.

I'd do the Mount St. Helen's trick, where the smoke comes out of the top. I wouldn't even have to look at people. I'd hear that 'Ahhhh!'

The power of a volcano when it erupts is so evident, so visible, so palpable.

There is more power in telling little than in telling all.

Like a mountain that's growing.

Give me silence, water, hope Give me struggle, iron, volcanoes.

Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.

Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal; yet Mr. Lyell will admit no greater paroxysms than we ourselves have witnessed-no periods of feverish spasmodic energy, during which the very framework of nature has been convulsed and torn asunder. The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.

Power is in nature the essential measure of right.

It was a subject [ volcanoes] that was dormant in me for a long time and it popped up 40 years ago when I made a [short] film on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe about a volcano that was about to explode and a single farmer refused to leave ["La Soufrière"].

Long, long ago, before eruptions were invented, the molten lava had to be carried down the mountainside, bucket by bucket, and poured over the sleeping villagers. This took time.

To come under siege was the inevitable fate of power.

Public life is constantly aware of the volcano.

There's happens to be a volcano in the vicinity and there's some talk about a volcano as well, so that's the title Salt and Fire

Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding

What about volcanoes?" "What about them?" "All that lava comes up from center of the earth where it is all hot. I saw a program, it had David Attenborough, so it's true.