Volcanic Zone

Famous quotes containing the words volcanic and/or zone:

“Each of us, even the lowliest and most insignificant among us, was uprooted from his innermost existence by the almost constant volcanic upheavals visited upon our European soil and, as one of countless human beings, I can’t claim any special place for myself except that, as an Austrian, a Jew, writer, humanist and pacifist, I have always been precisely in those places where the effects of the thrusts were most violent.”
—Stefan Zweig (18811942)

“The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.”
—Italo Calvino (1923–1985)