"claiming that the destructive practice of mountaintop removal……" — Joseph Conrad
"claiming that the destructive practice of mountaintop removal mining, blowing the tops off mountains to get at the coal beneath, performs the "necessary" function of creating flat land for development To tear treasure out of the bowels of the land was their desire, with no more moral purpose at the back of it than there is in burglars breaking into a safe."
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Joseph Conrad
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235 Quotes by Joseph Conrad
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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A train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence.
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