What is it about the component of fire? People have written about it. People have wondered about it.
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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.
I'm probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it.
The element of fire to me is very powerful because of what it symbolizes, how it symbolizes a strength. It symbolizes something that's unstoppable. You can't get through it, you know.
But in due course it became evident that not only a physical situation qua physics, but the meaning of that situation to people, was sometimes a factor, through the behavior of people, in the start of a fire.
Fire is our first form of technology.
A thought often makes us hotter than a 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.
Fire taps something ancient and vital in each of us, something both snarling and reverential.
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.
Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements.
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