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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Source: The Conduct of Life, 1860.
Contributed by: bajarbattu
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