Matt Haig

I think we get too hung up on categories. Obviously, the book market has to categorise things, and it makes it easier for a reader to go into a bookshop and choose, but as a writer, it helps to get rid of all of that and imagine you are a storyteller around a campfire.

British Novelist

Donald E. Westlake

I start with the story, almost in the old campfire sense, and the story leads to both the characters, which actors should best be cast in this story, and the language. The choice of words, more than anything else, creates the feeling that the story gives off.

American Writer

Helen Fisher

As social animals, we need to exchange juicy tales about someone - to connect with one another. For millions of years our forebears must have sat around the campfire, whispering about everyone they knew.

American Scientist

Taylor Goldsmith

It's easy to look at kids sitting around a campfire looking at their phones and to think, 'What a shame.' But I think they're going to be more advanced in terms of communication than my generation.

American Musician

Gregory Harrison

So I got interested in singing and I have always used my voice. Not professionally as much, but around the living room, the campfire, that kind of thing.

American Actor

Jim James

Once all the power goes out, there will still be human beings standing together around a campfire, playing acoustic guitars.

Colin Trevorrow

I've said before, if you're going to earnestly sing a song around a campfire, you'd better be a Muppet!

American Director

Randy Orton

Having a campfire and roasted marshmallows, to me that sounds like Heaven.

American Wrestler

Gavin DeGraw

I was introduced to country music around a campfire on a farm.

Linda Ellerbee

American Journalist

Used when describing outdoor or wilderness experiences, often associated with adventure.

Outdoor Activity

Refers to the essential skill of making a fire outdoors which is vital in many survival situations.

Survival Skill

Implies a social or communal aspect, often an occasion for storytelling or bonding.

Social Gathering

A gathering that's informal, promoting friendship and storytelling.

Informal Event

Often holds cultural value, associated with traditional songs or rituals.

Cultural Significance

Campfires provide a setting for sharing tales, often spooky or legendary.

Storytelling

 to say, "This is how I saw you. This is how I love you. This is how I respect you. What do you think? Am I right? Am I wrong?" So I wanted this debate. It was very, very, very emotional, and one night we were sitting around the campfire, and I have to be honest, I think I'd had a little bit too much to drink,

Jimmy Nelson: Gorgeous...

 we're also going to understand it much more deeply. Hence, touch to see. But it's not enough to experience things ourselves. We're inherently these social primates. And this leads me to our third guideline, the holographic campfire from our first story. Our mirror-neuron subsystem suggests

A glimpse of the future...

 the idea that we all feel a compelling need to watch stories, to tell stories, to share stories -- sort of the gathering around the campfire to discuss the things that tell each one of us that we are not alone in the world. Those things to me are never going to change.

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 For example, the smell of a campfire could evoke the memory of being trapped in a burning house. For someone with PTSD, that memory activates the same neurochemical cascade as the original event. That then stirs up the same feelings of panic and helplessness

The psychology of...

 I think community is really important right now. With so many of us feeling trepidation, the weariness, the anger, the fear, the frustration, the terrorism that we've experienced in our communities. This is a time to huddle around a virtual campfire,

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 campfire called a TED talk and let me tell you the story of fire on earth and of the keystone species that for good or ill has become the keeper of the planetary flame and how we've created a world with too much of the wrong kind of

How fire shapes...

 inspire the most reverence and and actually fear as well but also it was often an animal that was at the heart of some of the best stories that i would listen to around the campfire at the foothills of mount kenya called

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 Imagine a typical It's after nightfall, the campfire is ablaze, an elder rises, eyes lock onto the wise, wrinkled face, and as the storyteller speaks, each listener imagines the events that are being described.

We can help you master...

 Sitting around a campfire, you can feel its heat, smell the woody smoke, and hear it crackle. If you get too close, it burns your eyes and stings your nostrils. You could stare at the bright flames forever

Is fire a solid, a...

 the campfire you can watch it for hours while listening to the wilderness thoughts and ideas float into an art of your mind at peace you feel alive