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1 " There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace. "
― Aldo Leopold , A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
2 " What are you doing?" Alain asked." Starting a fire, of course." Mari held up the thing in her hand. " It's a fire-starter. A really simple device. Haven't you ever seen one?" Alain shook his head. " Never. That thing seems very complicated. I do not understand how it can work." " How do you start fires?" That was a Guild secret. Or was it? The elders had told him that no Mechanic could understand how it worked. What would this Mechanic say if he told her? " I use my mind to channel power to create a place where it is hot, altering the nature of the illusion there," Alain explained, " and then use my mind to put that heat on what I want to burn." " Oh," Mechanic Mari said. " Is that actually how you visualize the process?" " That is how it is done," Alain said." That's...interesting." She grinned. " So, instead of making fire by doing something complicated or hard to understand like striking a flint, you just alter the nature of reality. That is a lot simpler. "
3 " If you couldn't sense heat, you'd not be alive. And if that heat never grew uncomfortable, you would never move. And if you were stagnant—unchallenged by unpredictable flares—you would never grow capable of shielding yourself from harsher flames. So yes, life was meant to drag you straight through the fire. "
― Richelle E. Goodrich , Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
4 " Their love story: It’s when logic fell in love with paranoia and paranoia learned to love logic; logic grounded paranoia and paranoia turned up the heat because logic never knew where that heat would come from. Logic needs to be stimulated and paranoia needs to be soothed and therefore they need each other, which resulted in the birth of combustion. The end. "
― Donna Lynn Hope
5 " The most convincing proof of the conversion of heat into living force [vis viva] has been derived from my experiments with the electro-magnetic engine, a machine composed of magnets and bars of iron set in motion by an electrical battery. I have proved by actual experiment that, in exact proportion to the force with which this machine works, heat is abstracted from the electrical battery. You see, therefore, that living force may be converted into heat, and that heat may be converted into living force, or its equivalent attraction through space. "
― James Prescott Joule , The Scientific Papers of James Prescott Joule
6 " By the time we see that climate change is really bad, your ability to fix it is extremely limited... The carbon gets up there, but the heating effect is delayed. And then the effect of that heat on the species and ecosystem is delayed. That means that even when you turn virtuous, things are actually going to get worse for quite a while. "
