#volcano

Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#grass #grow #peak #volcano #which

I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater. ↗

— Agnes Smedley

#crater #feel #i #i feel #i feel like

One of the most amazing locations I've ever been is the top of the volcano in Tanzania, Africa. It's an actual volcano where you really have this lava every day. ↗

— Jan de Bont

#africa #amazing #been #day #ever

So Dan Miller decided to roast a pig. The idea took hold of him after another eruption on August 7. He would roast a pig in the steaming volcano fields at the base of St. Helens. Being a scientist meant that he would do it in a methodical fashion: notes would be kept and he would document everything. The operation needed a cover name because reporters and others were monitoring all radio communication around the volcano, so he called it the 'FPP temperature experiment'. FPP stood for Front Page Palmer, a name the scientists had given a local geology professor who had irritated the Survey geologists by grandstanding for the press. Miller would roast a pig and Palmer at the same time. ↗

— Dick Thompson

#geology-humor #mt-st-helens #science #usgs #volcanoes

Now for a good twelve-hour sleep, I told myself. Twelve solid hours. Let birds sing, let people go to work. Somewhere out there, a volcano might blow, Israeli commandos might decimate a Palestinian village. I couldn't stop it. I was going to sleep. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#israeli-palestinian-conflict #sleep #volcano #freedom

Maybe they had become volcano smoke jumpers, diving into an unknown risk to do a dangerous job because, in part, it was a social good and, in part, because they loved the big show. ↗

— Dick Thompson

#pinatubo #the-survey #usgs #volcanoes #love