Coal Country

Famous quotes containing the words coal and/or country:

“Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may will call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“It was worth the while to lie down in a country where you could afford such great fires; that was one whole side, and the bright side, of our world.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)