"Wildfires are a result of temperature conditions, of soil moisture conditions; and, of course, something has to start it."

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My dad hates umbrellas, said Deeba, swinging her own. When it rains he always says the same thing. 'I do not believe the presence of moisture in the air is sufficient reason to overturn society's usual sensible taboo against wielding spiked clubs at eye level.

— China Mieville