"Young Men and Fire" Quotes
The book explores the tragic 1949 Mann Gulch fire in Montana and its impact on the lives of the young men who fought it.
nonfiction | 301 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
It is startling to realize that the dead have power over the living.
The surface fire lessens, but it is the crown fire that is coming.
It was a place of extreme beauty, and extreme danger.
There is an inevitable sadness in killing a deer, but a consolation in seeing it remain so beautiful.
The terror of the Mann Gulch fire is not the fire itself, but the fear it induces.
The fire seemed to be everywhere at once, and all the time there was the sound of flame.
The whole world seemed on fire and it was a very lonely world.
I have lived a long time, and I have seen a lot of fire, but I have never seen anything like this.
The men in the smoke were coming out of it, and they were not the same as when they went in.
Smoke and fire are the two great dangers in the woods.
