Climate change Quote by John Vaillant

“In my biology class, we'd talked about the definition of life: to be classified as a living creature, a thing needs to eat, breathe,…

— Dan Wells

“Coal, oil and gas are called fossil fuels, because they are mostly made of the fossil remains of beings from long ago. The chemical…

— Carl Sagan

We circle in the night and we are devoured by fire.

— Heraclitus

We the human species, are confronting a planetary emergency-a threat to the survival of our civilization that is gathering ominous and destructive potential...the earth…

— Al Gore

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

— Amory Lovins

The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle flame to the nuclear blast, it has…

— Michael Leunig

Fire is the reuniting of matter with oxygen. If one bears that in mind, every blaze may be seen as a reunion, an occasion…

— Tom Robbins

The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.

— Edith Södergran

Live fire cooking and barbecue have been so intimately linked with human evolution and history and politics. Everything we do, barbecue informs it in…

— Steven Raichlen

Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and…

— Otto Weininger

“The evolution of the world can be compared to a display of fireworks that has just ended: some few red wisps, ashes and smoke.…

— Georges Lemaître

“Life is precarious and improbable, a flame in matter, easily snuffed out. Nature shows no regard for the individual spark, in this creature or…

— Scott Russell Sanders