کاملا پوسته ی خارجی این آتشفشان ها از بین رفته بود و فقط هسته ی کهنه آن ها باقی مانده بود، درست وسط صحرای بزرگ، احساس کردم درحال تماشای زمین بدون پوسته آن هستم. 
These had had their entire exteriors stripped away, and all that was left was the old core, and in the middle of the Sahara, I felt like I was seeing the earth with its living skin stripped away. 