Baskets Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Coal is a portable climate.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is, as every schoolboy knows in this scientific age, a very close chemical relation between coal and diamonds. It is the reason, I…

— 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

Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.

— Khalil Gibran

Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the means of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inside every lump of coal there's a diamond waiting to get out.

— Terry Pratchett

From the industry's point of view, the problem is not that coal companies blast the top off mountains, turning the area into a moonscape…

— Jeff Goodell

“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

“Coal that bears that pressure meets a diamond.”

— Shumila Shah

“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

“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

“Well, coal companies create a lot of problems, most of them anyway. There are a couple of decent ones, but most care nothing about…

— John Grisham