Guy Standing

Magna Carta only came into being in 1217, when the wording had been changed and parts of the original were extended in the Charter of the Forests. This complementary charter covered liberties granted to the common man, including rights to the commons, grazing, fishing, water, and firewood, and was perhaps the first ecological charter in history.

English Actor

William Kamkwamba

Climate change is important to Malawi, but many people see alternative energy more as a means to skip the government and get electricity and power. Deforestation is a huge problem in Malawi, which only adds to the problem. People cut down trees because they have no power to run electric stoves, etc. So they use firewood.

Malawian Inventor

Tamae Watanabe

We as children went up the mountain to find feed for livestock, like goats, cows and horses, and because in the winter time we would light the fire in the house, we would climb the mountain to collect firewood as well. Because of that, I suppose I became used to climbing mountains.

Japanese Athlete

Jody Williams

Landmines distinguish themselves because once they have been sown, once the soldier walks away from the weapon, the landmine cannot tell the difference between a soldier or a civilian - a woman, a child, a grandmother going out to collect firewood to make the family meal.

American Activist

Carlo Collodi

Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not an expensive piece of wood. Far from it. Just a common block of firewood, one of those thick, solid logs that are put on the fire in winter to make cold rooms cozy and warm.

Italian Writer

Sebastian Junger

My wife, Daniela, and I live in an old house from 1810 with three fireplaces at the end of a dead-end dirt road on Cape Cod, so I turn the trees into firewood for us and a friend of mine sells the rest.

American Author

Wangari Maathai

In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.

Kenyan Activist

Sue Hubbell

Every spring, I begin cutting my firewood for the upcoming winter. It should be cut months ahead of time so it will dry and cure.

Firewood is often associated with camping or outdoor activities where modern heating isn't available.

Outdoor Activity

Before being ready to burn efficiently, firewood must be properly cut, dried, and stored.

Preparation Required

Firewood is a symbol of warmth and coziness, often used in contexts talking about home and comfort.

Warmth and Comfort

 red-flag I know for three days I should go get firewood and we should go get a couple days worth of something to eat here caribou or few ducks the hailstone family spends their summer living in Kowalik away from their home in their native village of Norvik this nomadic lifestyle allows them to live off the

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 with spears and Kalashnikovs. Women who go to get firewood in order to heat the humanitarian aid in order to feed their families -- humanitarian aid, the dirty secret of it is it has to be heated, really, to be edible -- are themselves subjected to rape, which is a tool of the genocide that is being used.

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 way of life it's a special feeling when you've got your food and you're betting on a mountain that you can see right out the window while you're in your cabin that's what subsistence living is it's just nice just like doing the dishes it's like chopping firewood working on a

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 you now this is exactly the kind of appropriate technology that has been touted around the developing world by development agencies because it's simple to make yourself and it makes the most efficient use of the firewood that a family can collect and the fact that

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 to feed the planet at least isn't true right now feeding seven billion people but you also see this that there are places in the world where you got real problems Africa these young women were hauling firewood ten kilometres back to their

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 to be able to buy that machine, and the first day it was going to be used, even Grandma was invited to see the machine. And Grandma was even more excited. Throughout her life, she had been heating water with firewood,

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 resulted in massive deforestation. The trees, the natural beauty, were destroyed as space was made for new communities, formal or informal, and for the cutting down of firewood. I was deeply troubled and dissatisfied.

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 forest and directly contributing to tourism and to the wide life they are in and even up to now my parents have sold firewood small bit by bit but today I'm everyday we have sold timber and

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 As the April sun rises on a pile of firewood, something royal stirs inside. This wasp queen is one of thousands who mated in late autumn and hibernated through the winter.

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 around Mount Runway are cleared for farming and firewood the Cape undies