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What is it about the component of fire? People have written about it. People have wondered about it.

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

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'm probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it.

Fire made us human, fossil fuels made us modern, but now we need a new fire that makes us safe, secure, healthy and durable.

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.

O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?

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.

Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements.

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.