Natural gas Quote by Arlie Russell Hochschild

“Because it’s Appalachia. The coal companies are destroying our mountains, towns, culture, and lives, and it’s not a story.”

— John Grisham

“Charleston is not the center of the universe, but it should be. That is the persistent perception of many locals.”

— Mark Jones

“The whole city was dangerous—because of chemicals and the uneven distribution of wealth and so on.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“I was not sorry for loving Charleston or for leaving it. Geography had made me who I was.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

“When I visited Fort Myers, I got the impression it was poor and residential with the exception of the ocean front. It was just…

— Steven Magee

Charleston is an amazing place. I probably didn't appreciate it enough when I was growing up.

— Thomas Gibson

“For these lands, and, I say, especially the northern parts of America, suffered so terribly from the full force of the last days of…

— William Morris

and in some of the people of the town and community surrounding it, one of the characteristic diseases of the twentieth century was making…

— Wendell Berry

“met in a harborside convention center in Vancouver to figure out how to save the world’s exploding cities from disaster. The world had little…

— Charles Montgomery

“Here was a county that had almost burned down. Here was that county moving on. All of these fires could have happened only in…

— Monica Hesse

“...the City is what they want it to be: thriftless, warm, scary and full of amiable strangers. No wonder they forget pebbly creeks and…

— Toni Morrison

“I imagined the towns were filled with people like me - lonely people who wanted to fly away, who wanted more from life than…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo