Mining Camp

Famous quotes containing the words mining and/or camp:

“It’s a mining town in lotus land.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

“We could not well camp higher, for want of fuel; and the trees here seemed so evergreen and sappy, that we almost doubted if they would acknowledge the influence of fire; but fire prevailed at last, and blazed here, too, like a good citizen of the world.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)