We like to think of the Earth as stable and still, but volcanoes tell a different story. I’ve realised that I’ve visited three active volcanoes in my travels, and this post is a way of looking back at what each one revealed about the restless Earth. Standing on an active volcano, I’m reminded that the ground is constantly shifting, breathing, and remaking itself. There is a quiet sense that something is happening just out of sight below the surface, and that calm can always be broken by one of nature’s most violent events.