A Quote by Nnimmo Bassey

Leave the oil in the soil, leave the coal in the hole. — © Nnimmo Bassey
Leave the oil in the soil, leave the coal in the hole.

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Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave the substance for the shadow. Leave your easy life, leave what you are given for the future. Set off on the roads.
I leave you love. I leave you hope. I leave you the challenge of developing confidence in one another. I leave you respect for the use of power. I leave you faith. I leave you racial dignity.
We need to replace coal with gas. We need to leave oil in the ground.
We don't want to leave the coal in the ground, and that necessarily is going to involve better technology with regard to clean uses of coal.
In contrast [to trees and fish], oil, metals, and coal are not renewable; they don't reproduce, sprout, or have sex to produce baby oil droplets or coal nuggets.
A lot of guitar players, in every genre, are afraid to leave space. They're afraid to leave a hole, afraid they'll fall down it or something.
Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?-thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades?
All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
Even as a very young man, I knew that my family is like a plant. Uproot it, and it will wilt. Pluck away at it, and it will die. But leave it to thrive in the soil, untouched, and it will weather both gods and winds. It is born with the soil, and it will live so long as the soil shall live.
I love my job but it takes a lot for me to leave my kids, leave my husband and leave my dogs.
A businessman needs three umbrellas - one to leave at the office, one to leave at home, and one to leave on the train.
When you leave, you basically want to go eat, because I talk a lot about food in my act. So when you leave, you leave hungry.
I'm so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.
I try to leave my work at the door when I leave the set. It's almost like summer camp. You go in hard, then you leave, and it's done.
I don't leave a room unless I leave a smile. I want to leave them laughing.
By the time I was 14, my most burning ambition was to leave my home, leave my neighborhood, leave my city. I kept it a secret wish. It was easier done than said. It wasn't only that I wanted to leave Chicago - I wanted to live in New York City. And I did - for a time.
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