geological instability Quotes

Sometimes the Earth trembles; sometimes you can feel it breathe.

When the ground starts moving, all bets are off.

But high up on the mountain When the wind is hitting it If you're watching very closely The rock slips a little bit.

It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet.

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

sometimes the shifting of rocks is deep, deep below, and it's powerful and scary down there, but that all we feel on the surface is a slight tremor. Only a slight tremor.

It has never occurred to me before, but this is truly how it is: all of us on earth walk constantly over a seething, scarlet sea of flame, hidden below, in the belly of the earth. We never think of it. But what if the thin crust under our feet should turn into glass and we should suddenly see?