James Balog

We still carry this old caveman-imprint idea that we're small, nature's big, and it's everything we can manage to hang on and survive. When big geophysical events happen - a huge earthquake, tsunami, or volcanic eruption - we're reminded of that.

American Photographer

Michelle Paver

I've climbed Stromboli when it's erupting, which is quite a heavy climb: three hours with a helmet to get to the top. When you're there, and it's dark, and you can see this eruption and feel it, it's quite different to watching it on TV.

British Novelist

Stephen Greenblatt

First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used in the English language before. It's astonishing. It pours out of him.

American Critic

David Maisel

The thing that struck me most about the Mount St. Helens project was not the devastation of the eruption, but the logging industry - the earth transformed on that scale by humans.

American Businessman

Peter Tosh

I love to watch television in Babylon, especially the news because it's so full of corruption. I-man know there is so much corruption, there is bound to be an eruption!

Jamaican Musician

Miroslav Lajcak

It is far easier and more effective - and not just in terms of cost - to prevent conventional conflicts than to intervene after an eruption of violence.

Slovak Diplomat

Fisher Ames

A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.

American Statesman

Panos Cosmatos

Black Rainbow' is about control and your emotions being repressed and controlled, and 'Mandy's' about all a volcanic eruption!

Canadian Director

Raoul Vaneigem

The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.

Belgian Philosopher

Christopher Hitchens

I took part in what was actually the last eruption of Marxist internationalism.

American Author

Often used to describe powerful natural events like volcanic activities.

Natural Phenomena

Can metaphorically describe a sudden forceful expression or release.

Metaphorical Use

Emphasizes the intensity and suddenness of an event.

Intensity

Refers to the rapid onset of social or political phenomena.

Societal Events

Can describe a strong, collective emotional reaction.

Emotional Response

Use to indicate unpredictability and lack of control over events.

Spontaneity

Specifically refers to the appearance of skin abnormalities.

Medical Condition

Often associated with sudden allergic responses on the skin.

Allergic Reactions

Describes symptoms that are visible and can be identified on sight.

Visible Symptoms

 I would certainly think. But if you look at that graph that goes down and down and down, that's what we've done to this species through overfishing over many decades. So while the oil spill, the leak, the eruption, is a catastrophe, I think it's important to keep in mind that we've done a lot to affect what's in the ocean, for a very long time.

Carl Safina: The oil...

 out you start asking why they go in there in the first place do they sense an eruption and then get out of there or are they just caught up in and blown up in the air chances are not but really it's an open question Morgan is one of our guides and he's the highest respected navigator in that region and we're watching the volcano

Robot vs. Volcano:...

 you could ever imagine a need to go a long long ways across the world and then we got dropped off in the middle of nowhere and the helicopter just leaves and disappears and this first river was the current sky River which had a major volcanic eruption back about ten or twelve years ago now and wiped out all

Bryan Smith: Adrenaline...

 eruption lingers in the atmosphere the particles will block the sunlight and stop the plants from doing photosynthesis effectively killing them however once the particles settle they provide a lot of nutrients to the ground and the newly solidified lava that has cleared the previous plant life now

Meet the World's Tiniest...

 we rigged all the vehicles with the infrared lights and the infrared cameras and then we drove out and we we heard the lions roaring and we followed the sound of the roar we drove through the trees all of a sudden there was this extraordinary sound it was like a sort of eruption of lions roaring

Filming Lions Hunting...

 most of us do instead is wait until the eruptions over and go out to the scene of the crime because the volcanic debris has chemical clues that tell us what happened deep in the earth before the eruption started literally a couple days ago last week I was up in the high

The secrets in volcanic...

 One of the most dangerous types of supervolcano is an explosive caldera, formed when a volcanic mountain collapses after an eruption so large that the now-empty magma chamber can no longer support its weight.

The colossal consequences...

 because of the rare conditions under which they were preserved a volcanic eruption buried the creature in soft ash locking in all its secrets before it could decompose and it wasn't the only one

The Feathered Dinosaur PIPE...

 researchers witnessed a spectacular fiery underwater volcano explosion and captured it on video it's believed to be the deepest ocean volcano eruption ever

Deepest Ocean Eruption...

 a very large eruption of Zeus it's very important for civil protection for future prevention of future eruptions at Missouri's