Quotes about Mining

It is about moving from ideas about merely being sustainable to ones that include regenerating areas devastated by agriculture, mining, and other destructive activities. It is about revolution. The transition from a death economy to a life economy is truly about a change in consciousness — a consciousness revolution.

a land where you will eat food without scarcity, where you will lack nothing; a land whose rocks are iron and whose hills are ready to be mined for copper.

“Surely there is a mine for silver and a place where gold is refined.

Iron is taken from the earth, and copper is smelted from ore.

Man puts an end to the darkness; he probes the farthest recesses for ore in deepest darkness.

Far from human habitation he cuts a shaft in places forgotten by the foot of man. Far from men he dangles and sways.

The miner strikes the flint; he overturns mountains at their base.

He hews out channels in the rocks, and his eyes spot every treasure.

Only by much searching and mining, are gold and diamonds obtained, and man can find every truth connected with his being, if he will dig deep into the mine of his soul.

Only by much searching and mining are gold and diamonds obtained, and man can find every truth connected with his being, if he will dig deep into the mine of his soul. That he is the maker of his character, the molder of his life, and the builder of his destiny, he may unerringly prove, if he will watch, control, and alter his thoughts

The Bible is no lazy man's book! Much of its treasure, like the valuable minerals stored in the bowels of the earth, only yield up themselves to the diligent seeker.

Curiosity is the far nobler sister of novelty. Curiosity invokes study. By definition, it is "interest leading to inquiry."[1] It does not look for diamonds on blades of grass; it looks for dew. If it's looking for diamonds, it mines. Curiosity isn't satisfied to climb a hill and then move on. To borrow words from Deuteronomy, it digs copper from them (Deuteronomy 8:9).