Bowels Quote by Joseph Conrad

“When a coal company gets a permit to strip-mine, it literally attacks the mountain with all manner of heavy equipment. First it clear-cuts the…

— John Grisham

“Mountaintop removal is nothing but strip-mining on steroids. Appalachian coal is found in seams, sort of like layers of a cake. At the top…

— John Grisham

“So why do these guys hate your guts?” “Because they believe strip-mining is a good thing. It provides jobs, and there are few jobs…

— John Grisham

“That’s what’s called a ‘valley fill.’ What they fill it with the coal companies call ‘overburden.’ That’s basically everything they tore off the land:…

— David Baldacci

“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity;…

— John Muir

“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity;…

— John Muir

“Back to the cake. You were down to the seam of coal.” “Yeah, well, once they find the coal, they bring in more machines,…

— John Grisham

Every one in this world has the potential to bring down the mountains. the only requisite is to make a start.

— Athar Azeem

The mountain represents your purpose in life. You and your people will enjoy the greatest success and satisfaction if you relentlessly pursue your purpose.

— Paul G. Stoltz

As climbers, we need to sacrifice our comfort, our safety, and arguably our sanity, as a tithe to the mountain...We need the mountains but…

— Lincoln Hall

It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations…

— William Graham Sumner

The story of mountaintop mining - why it happens, and what its consequences are - is still new to most Americans. They have no…

— Michael Shnayerson