Most of the volcanoes are pretty far away. You have to go to, God knows, Alaska. Or you have to go to the Southern Indies or you have to go to a specific island.
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.
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.
When we opened our eyes, we saw bedrock exposed in the walls of the crater.
At the same time, there's something magnificent about volcanoes; they created the atmosphere that we need for breathing.
I wrote a novel about Israelis who live their own lives on the slope of a volcano. Near a volcano one still falls in love, one still gets jealous, one still wants a promotion, one still gossips.
People never believe in volcanoes until the lava actually overtakes them.
The most spectacular anti-lava effort in history occurred on the Icelandic island of Heimaey in 1973.
The reticent volcano keeps His never slumbering plan - Confided are his projects pink To no precarious man.
Mauna Kea from Hilo has a shapely aspect, for its top is broken into peaks, said to be the craters of extinct volcanoes, but my eyes seek the dome-like curve of Mauna Loa with far deeper interest, for it is as yet an unfinished mountain.
The geysers and hot springs of the Yellowstone are another proof of recent volcanic activity.
Obsidian was caused by volcanoes, an eruption of steam and gas so furious that it melted the earth itself into this hard, shiny object.
Of course the entire planet Earth consists of magma under us, and only the very inner-core is different.
A volcano may be considered as a cannon of immense size.
