Volcanoes Quotations | Page 2

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

Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

If you have one volcano in the world, that one volcano puts out more carbon dioxide than everything man puts out.

One volcano puts out more toxic gases - one volcano - than man makes in a whole year. And when you look at this climate change, and when you look at the regular climate change that we all have in the world, we have warm and we have cooling spells.

How powerful social mores are! Only a spider's web lies across the volcano, yet it refrains from erupting.

Talent, will and genius are natural phenomena like the lake, the volcano, the mountain, the wind, the star, the cloud.

One volcano in Hawaii, one volcano in Indonesia, produces enough gases in the atmosphere, which include those natural elements that are in the Earth's crust, that, uh, kind of make all the, you know, the science that we have about what we produce, moot.

It's the arrogance of man to think that man can change the climate of the world. Only nature can change the climate. A volcano, for instance.

If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one's self is like the heat in an oven. It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.