Wildfire Quotes

“He was a boy in love with a wildfire. Or at least he thought he was”
― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire

“So, are we still on tonight? For our dinner?” I asked.
“Hell, yes. We’re on for tonight. We’re on for tomorrow. We’re on for the foreseeable future.”
.”
― Ilona Andrews, Wildfire

“To most human beings, wind is an irritation. To most trees, wind is a song.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Cornelius opened the car door and cautiously peered out.
“Yes?” I asked.
“Checking to see if it’s safe to come out.”
Everyone was a comedian. I sighed and went into my office.”
― Ilona Andrews, Wildfire

“Humanity should not remain insensitive to the forest fire or wildfire every year. Unless we act, the loss of biodiversity and extinction of herbs, birds and animals and the pains of the trees, birds, animals and the poor is also alarming signal for the extinction of humanity itself.”
― Amit Ray, Nuclear Weapons Free World - Peace on the Earth

“Wild fires blaze within her soul,
there's where all her passion rises from...”
― Avijeet Das

“You are not a gentle flower who spends its whole life in a greenhouse. You are a wildfire, Lark. A wildfire.”
― Ilona Andrews, Sweep in Peace

“I don’t believe she sees him as family,” Cornelius said.
“She can see him however she wants. I only care how Rogan sees me.”
― Ilona Andrews, Wildfire

“So, are we still on tonight? For our dinner?” I asked.
“Hell, yes. We’re on for tonight. We’re on for tomorrow. We’re on for the foreseeable future.”
― Ilona Andrews, Wildfire

“Resentment is the little fire that can transform and destroy the world by becoming a wildfire.”
― Debasish Mridha

“Those footprints in the snow led me to this wildfire.”
― Akshay Vasu

“I like that you’re jealous.”
“Rogan, put the car back.”
“Come to dinner with me tonight and I’ll consider it.”
Yes! “No. I don’t negotiate with terrorists.”
“If you don’t go to dinner with me, I’ll have to do something drastic like stand by your window with a boom box blasting some idiotically sappy song.”
― Ilona Andrews

“They were looking for a flame, but I came to earth to start wildfires. My heart carries medals of war, I've never been one to love small.”
― Nikki Rowe, Fragile but Fierce: A Quote Collection

“You are meant to start a wildfire with a single spark”
― Gena Showalter, Lifeblood

“In the middle of the mayhem, you came and sang a song of melancholy. You promised a wildfire, but instead choked the light that was struggling hard for survival. Eventually when all the light went off. You left, complaining about the darkness.”
― Akshay Vasu

“How was I to know this tiny spark would spread like wildfire.”
― N.R.Hart

“Sensuality is a candle of passion that forever burns within us. But it's also a wildfire to some of us.”
― Lebo Grand

“In 1995 the budget for fighting fire made up 16 percent of the US Forest Service's budget. It rose to the 50 percent level in 2015 and could reach close to 70 percent by 2025.”
― Edward Struzik, Firestorm: How Wildfire Will Shape Our Future

“He was wildfire and I wanted to burn.”
― N.R.Hart

“His look his touch his heat spread like wildfire through me.”
― N.R.Hart

“In Canada, a little over half the wildfires are started by humans. In the United States, human-started wildfires account for 84 percent of all wildfires, and nearly half of all area that is burned.”
― Edward Struzik, Firestorm: How Wildfire Will Shape Our Future

“For the first time in the US Forest Service's history, more than half the agency's annual appropriated budget was devoted to wildfires in 2015, up from 16 percent in 1995. Nowadays, the US Forest SErvice's annual firefighting budget routinely runs our of money before the fire season ends. With this trend of increasing costs for fighting wildfires expected to continue, two-thirds of the agency's budget will go for this kind of work by 2025.”
― Edward Struzik, Firestorm: How Wildfire Will Shape Our Future

“That might sound like the plot of a b-rated horror movie, but it is all too real. Although, some people still have not accepted that truth, while others have no idea the terror that awaits them. The future of mankind is at stake, as the virus continues to spread like wildfire.”
― Jason Medina, The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel

“The virus went through that crowd faster than a California wildfire.”
― Jason Medina, The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel

“Fighting wildfires is the most visible thing the USDA does. It's the places in our government where the cameras never roll that you have to worry about most.”
― Michael Lewis, The Fifth Risk

“As the need grows for more research, both Canada and the United States continue to take money away from fire science, forest management, and conservation initiatives to pay for the rising cost of fire.”
― Edward Struzik, Firestorm: How Wildfire Will Shape Our Future

“Canada now spends as much as $1 billion each year fighting fires, five times the amount it spent in the 1990s.”
― Edward Struzik, Firestorm: How Wildfire Will Shape Our Future

“The flames rose and the properties devalued into ash.”
― Steven Magee

“Imagination is a gift.
I've misused it,
Hired it to
Paint my walls
With fear.
I've learned it,
Laughed at
My stories
Of "truth."
I've burst with it,
Dripped my
Hopes and lies
Onto you.
And now I've become it,
Stopped trying
To control my wildfire
And let it spread.
Life is a gift.
I'm. Opening. It.”
― Vironika Tugaleva

“The annual volume of forest felled during the Obama administration was higher than all the years during the George W. Bush administration but one. In the year Obama took office, 2009, the cut was 1,954,092,000 board feet; at the end of the Obama administration in 2016 it was up to 2,536,601,000 board feet, an increase of almost 30 percent. Much of this was done under the pretext of preventing wildfire.”
― Christopher Ketcham, This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West