Coal River

Coal River may refer to:

Rivers
  • Coal River (Canada), in Yukon and British Columbia
  • Coal River, New Zealand, in Fiordland
  • Coal River (West Virginia), in the United States
  • Coal River (Tasmania), in Australia
Other
  • Coal River (book), a 2008 nonfiction book about mountaintop removal mining in the United States
  • Coal River was the early name for the Australian settlement which became Newcastle, New South Wales

Famous quotes containing the words coal and/or river:

    ““The room’s very hot, with all this crowd,” the Professor said to Sylvie. “I wonder why they don’t put some lumps of ice in the grate? You fill it with lumps of coal in the winter, you know, and you sit round it and enjoy the warmth. How jolly it would be to fill it now with lumps of ice, and sit round it and enjoy the coolth!””
    —Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

    “There are knives that glitter like altars
    In a dark church
    Where they bring the cripple and the imbecile
    To be healed.

    There’s a woden block where bones are broken,
    Scraped clean—a river dried to its bed”
    —Charles Simic (b. 1938)