Spontaneous Natural Flames
- A coal mine fire in Centralia, Pennsylvania has been burning beneath the borough since 1962.
- The Eternal Flame Falls can be found in the Shale Creek Preserve, Chestnut Ridge Park in New York, United States.
- There is an area producing natural spontaneous flames in Olympos National Park, Turkey.
- There is an eternal flame in Guanziling, Taiwan, as a result of methane gas.
- Flaming Geyser State Park in Washington, United States.
- An eternal flame in Australia, fueled by a coal seam instead of natural gas. Called "Burning Mountain", it is claimed to be the world's longest burning fire, at 6,000 years old.
- The Door to Hell, near Derweze, Turkmenistan, is a large hole leaking natural gas that has been burning since 1971.
- Eternal Flame near Kirkuk, Iraq. Locals call it Baba Gurgur and say it has been burning thousands of years.
- Eternal Flame at the Yanar Dag mud volcano in Azerbaijan
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Famous quotes containing the words spontaneous, natural and/or flames:
“Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Sole and self-commanded works,
Fears not undermining days,
Grows by decays,
And, by the famous might that lurks
In reaction and recoil,
Makes flames to freeze, and ice to boil.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)