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“Taking coal buried deep in the earth, for which we must inflict irreparable damage, violates every precept of the code [of honorable harvest]. By no stretch of the imagination is coal 'given to us'. We have to wound the land and water to gouge it from Mother Earth.” — Robin Wall Kimmerer

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Taking coal buried deep in the earth, for which we must inflict irreparable damage, violates every precept of the code [of honorable harvest]. By no stretch of the imagination is coal 'given to us'. We have to wound the land and water to gouge it from Mother Earth.
— Robin Wall Kimmerer