I'm probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it.
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Fire made us human, fossil fuels made us modern, but now we need a new fire that makes us safe, secure, healthy and durable.
What is it about the component of fire? People have written about it. People have wondered about it.
A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle flame to the nuclear blast, it has lit up the human imagination with fear and fascination.
I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.
I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.
Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.
Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
Fire is our first form of technology.
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