“(voice)...it was honey, smoke, crystal, fire, wind, water, earth.”

“The miracle is walking on the earth, not walking on water or fire. The real miracle is walking on this earth.”

“Earth and fire and water and airWe solemnly promise, we solemnly swearNot a word, not a hint, not a sound to declareEarth and fire and water and air!”

“[Fire] is lightfooted and shamanic, dancing between the visible and invisible, undoing matter one collapsed molecule at a time, wreaking utter destruction with a touch softer than breath. Its poor cousins, wind and water, are one-dimensional rubes by comparison. Wind is all push, push, push. Water is suffocating, but passively so. And even when water gets it together to be a torrent or a tsunami, it is but wet wind. Fire is at once elemental and otherworldly. Fire dances on the grave of all it destroys. Fire is serious voodoo.”

“In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.”

“Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.”