Coal Quotes - Page 14

• Since time immemorial it had been the custom before a sea battle for the men to wash and don clean clothes in case of being wounded. This was all the more necessary under these circumstances, as many of them were still covered with coal dust.

  Richard Hough

  Men, Dust, Sea

  Richard Hough (2003). “Naval Battles of the Twentieth Century”, p.33, The Overlook Press

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• By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can see atoms like a gnat; can see the system of the universe of Uriel, the angel of the sun; can carry whatever loads a ton of coal can lift; can knock down cities with his fist of gunpowder; can recover the history of his race by the medals which the deluge, and every creature, civil or savage or brute, has involuntarily dropped of its existence; and divine the future possibility of the planet and its inhabitants by his perception of laws of nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Angel, Men, Sharks

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.74, Harvard University Press

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• What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or stairs of our great houses, whence a cruel contempt of our natural store is bred in them?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wall, House, Graffiti

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• Chinese emissions are a problem not just for its own people but also for the world. It has now overtaken the U.S. as the biggest carbon emitter; most of the coal that is burned anywhere on Earth is burned in China.

  James Fallows

  People, Chinese, World

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• No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.

  Bernard Malamud

  Anger, Hot, Use

  Bernard Malamud (2014). “The Fixer”, p.59, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs.

  John Major

  Numbers, Hot, Pits

  "Major threatens general election if he fails to win Maastricht vote". "The Sunday Times" Newspaper, October 25, 1992.

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• There are jobs to be created on both sides of the climate argument. Whether we are investing in oil or sun, coal or wind, gas or algae, the economy will be stimulated by the investment. The economy, unlike each of us, is not swayed by ideology.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Jobs, Wind, Oil

  "Climate Choice" by Evangeline Lilly, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 22, 2013.

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• The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.

  Jeff Goodell

  Political, Economy, Enormous

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• Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently.

  Jeff Goodell

  Fighting, Electric Power, Inspiring Others

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• Coal boosters like to tout coal as cheap and plentiful - well, not anymore. At least not in China.

  Jeff Goodell

  China, Wells, Plentiful

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• For better or worse, the bulk of coal industry jobs are in Appalachia - and when that coal is gone, so are the jobs.

  Jeff Goodell

  Jobs, Gone, Appalachia

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• In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event.

  Jeff Goodell

  Energy, Events, World

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• It may be too late for West Virginia to save itself from the ravages of Big Coal. But it's not too late for America.

  Jeff Goodell

  Virginia, America, Too Late

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• Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns.

  Jeff Goodell

  Presidential, Political, Campaigns

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• Some studies have shown that natural gas could, in fact, be worse for the climate than coal.

  Jeff Goodell

  Climate, Facts, Study

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• Americans don't pay much attention to environmental issues, because they aren't sexy. I mean, cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely important work, but it doesn't get anybody's pulse racing.

  Jeff Goodell

  Sexy, Mean, Issues

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• Take an arrow, and hold it in flame for the space of ten pulses, and when it cometh forth you shall find those parts of the arrow which were on the outsides of the flame more burned, blacked, and turned almost to coal, whereas the midst of the flame will be as if the fire had scarce touched it. This is an instance of great consequence for the discovery of the nature of flame; and sheweth manifestly, that flame burneth more violently towards the sides than in the midst.

  Francis Bacon

  Science, Flames, Arrows

  Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.145

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• Everyone of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal, pouring off every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.

  Bob Dylan

  Poetry, Soul, Burning

  Bob Dylan (2013). “Lyrics:1962-2012”, p.480, Simon and Schuster

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• Since 1850, burning of fossil fuels, coal, oil and natural gas has increased 100 times to produce energy as the world has industrialized to serve the world's more than 6 billion and growing population.

  John Olver

  Oil, Energy, Population

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• Like most problems with technology, pollution is a problem of scale. The biosphere might have been able to tolerate our dirty old friends coal and oil if we burned them gradually, but how long can it withstand a blaze of consumption so frenzied that the dark size of this planet glows like a fanned ember in the night of space.

  Ronald Wright

  Dirty, Dark, Night

  Ronald Wright (2010). “A Short History Of Progress”, p.7, Canongate Books

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• We will achieve North America energy independence by 2020, by taking full advantage of our oil, our gas, our coal, our renewables and our nuclear power. Abundant, inexpensive, domestic energy will not only create energy jobs, it will bring back manufacturing jobs.

  Mitt Romney

  Jobs, Oil, America

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• I'm not against Kyoto. I just think it's a fantasy, especially considering China's energy predicament and their coal supplies.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Thinking, Kyoto, Energy

  Source: www.treehugger.com

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• A distant cousin sent me some genealogy report on my father's side, and it's sort of what I suspected. Coal miners for generations... four or maybe five generations.

  Gina McKee

  Cousin, Father, Coal Miners

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The damages of our present agriculture all come from the determination to use the life of the soil as if it were an extractable resource like coal.

  Wendell Berry

  Determination, Land, Agriculture

  Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.73, Counterpoint

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• Economy does not consist in saving the coal, but in using the time while it burns.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Doe, Saving, Economy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.319, Harvard University Press

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