Coal Fields

Famous quotes containing the words coal and/or fields:

“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)

“As the fields fear drought in autumn, so people fear poverty in old age.”
—Chinese proverb.