“We're working as hard as we can ... to find those two miners.”
Doug Conaway
“This had never been done before. He had no precedence. He was working with hard rock miners.”
DJ Garrity
“We are moving on to the hard task of the physical recovery of our miners so the families can start their mourning.”
Xavier Garcia
“We found mineral grains that are considered very high-temperature minerals -- they normally form under extremely high temperature conditions. And yet they were collected in a comet, the Siberia of the solar system.”
Don Brownlee
“I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?”
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“Harm no person, animal, plant or mineral.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“Conservation is the foresighted utilization, preservation and/or renewal of forests, waters, lands and minerals, for the greatest good of the greatest number for the longest time.”
Gifford Pinchot