"Coal lay in ledges under the ground..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may well call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate.
More by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“All substances the cunning chemist TimeMelts down into that liquor of my life.”
“A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.”
“Really, all things and persons are related to us, but according to our nature, they act on us not at once, but in succession, andwe are made aware of their presence one at a time. All persons, all things which we have known, are here present, and many more than we see; the world is full.”
More on Resources
“Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.”
“Research is one of the Nation's very greatest resources and the role of the Federal Government in supporting and stimulating it needs to reexamined.”
“Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the incarnation and nutriment of their design.”
More on Civilization
“There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character.”
“If you will notice, there is seldom a telegram in a paper which fails to show up one or more members & beneficiaries of our Civilization as promenading with his shirt-tail up & the rest of his regalia in the wash.”
“To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.”