Quotes with vesuvius

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  • Herman Melville Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand!
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry goddess-creature who resembles everybody's mom in that she knows what's best for us. But if you look at the historical record - Krakatoa, Mt. Vesuvius, Hurricane Charley, poison ivy, and so forth down the ages - you have to ask yourself: Whose side is she on, anyway?
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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