At the beginning of this paper, I explained that for some members of the Dutch ecogenomics community, the term 'nature mining' invoked an image of nature as a reservoir to be exploited using the latest technologies.
It was as if mines had become part of nature, commonplace and inevitable.
The desorption characteristics of gas in coal are experimentally studied under the conditions of nature and mining using the experiment system.
We really don't have time to waste, yet our government keeps promoting drilling, fracking, and mining as if the laws of nature could be suspended at our convenience.
That is what lends such a poignancy to trips such as mine: knowing that the splendors of nature are fast disappearing and that I was fortunate to see the little of it that I did.
I imagined people in homes more exposed than mine, powerless against the viciousness of nature, trying to distract their children, while terrified themselves.
One such burning bush arrived in my life a little over a year and a half ago, and like most biblical parables, mine appeared in the beauty of nature through the eyes of an innocent child.
For example, mining was prohibited in antiquity because it was thought to be "mining the earth's womb"; early Greek metaphors of nature as alive and "nurturing female" supported the view that mining was wrong.
Due to complex rock mass behavior under changing stress conditions of underground coal mining, an empirical formulation on the basis of field observations is, generally, adopted for assessment of nature and amount of mining induced stress development.
His mining background also led to his love of nature.
