Winona LaDuke

Ojibwe prophecy speaks of a time during the seventh fire when our people will have a choice between two paths. The first path is well-worn and scorched. The second path is new and green. It is our choice as communities and as individuals how we will proceed.

American Activist

J. Kenji Lopez-Alt

Many call for cooking pasta directly in milk, a technique that works okay, but it can lead to scorching if you're not super careful with stirring. I prefer the evaporated-milk route because it ensures a clean pan with no burnt bits on the bottom.

American Chef

Nino Schurter

The Cape Epic is unpredictable. In South Africa, it's scorching hot one minute, then super-windy or rainy the next, so you have to ensure you're ready for anything.

Swiss Athlete

Rachel Khoo

Failing ownership of a wood-fired oven, whacking pizza dough straight on to the hot grill is the next best way to achieve that beautiful scorched crust.

British Chef

Tiffany Dupont

I don't leave my house - I don't care if it's raining or scorching hot out - without a face cream with a minimum of SPF 15, if not more.

American Actress

Amala Akkineni

Like Hyderabad you can't shoot outside in summers. Similarly, Delhi gets scorching in summers.

Indian Actress

Peter Tork

I get to play a scorching lead guitar, and there's not much that's more fun than that.

American Musician

Frederick Douglass

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.

American Author

Malcolm Campbell

The tires were scorching hot, in fact I burned my fingers on one.

English Celebrity

Roger Ailes

I only understand friendship or scorched earth.

American Businessman

The strength of heat changes how much something is scorched, from slight to severe damage.

Intensity Matters

Scorching can happen accidentally, often implying carelessness or a mishap.

Not Always Intentional

Scorching usually leaves a visible, often permanent, mark or discoloration.

Physical Marks

Describing something as 'scorching past' suggests it happened very quickly and impressively.

Impressive Speed

'Scorch' indicates a sudden or swift movement, enhancing the sense of speed.

Sudden Movement

A scorch as a noun often refers to damage that's accidental and unwanted.

Unwanted Damage

A scorch is specifically from heat and usually has a distinct, irregular shape.

Specific Appearance

Using 'scorch' as a metaphor implies a critique is especially severe and damaging.

Harsh Critique

'Scorch' can convey strong negative emotions felt by the person giving the criticism.

Negative Emotion

 It seems that there are unique uses for hair in different parts of our bodies. When it comes to the tops of our heads, temperature regulation likely played a part again. Since early humans began venturing into the open, their heads would’ve been exposed to the scorching sun. Thicker, longer-growing hair protects our sensitive scalps

Why do we have hair in...

 Almost everything here was brought from somewhere else -- the sort of rocks, the trees, the waterfalls. These fish are almost as out of place as my pig that flew. Contrasted to the scorching desert that surrounds this place, so are these people. Things from all over the world have been rebuilt here, away from their histories,

Paper towns and why...

 trapping heat from the sun and scorching the planet's surface. The reality totally contradicted initial perceptions of this planet. From these lessons from our own solar system, we've learned that a planet's atmosphere is crucial to its climate and potential to host life.

Aomawa Shields: How...

 able to withstand the scorching Sun whilst they eat but their skin is truly extraordinary it was long wondered why giraffes had their spectacular patterns but we'd seen their striking patches may help them stay cool it was found that underneath

Top 5 Animal Adaptations...

 kind of dark blue a color which protects them from the Sun and this enables them to eat high in the treetops all day long not only are they able to withstand the scorching Sun whilst they eat but their skin is truly extraordinary

Giraffe's Blue Tongues PIPE...

 idea but I talked that into allowing me and off I went luck struck on my very first visit who could have ever imagined that life could exist in this mars-like landscape while photographs in this scorching lava

Spotting the camel...

 to boost my own ego, because I felt self-hatred for myself and I wanted to project it onto others, or was it the one that I had physically given life to? Was my purpose to scorch the earth

My descent into...

 since it's so scorched is getting the 15 gallons of water into it which is basically about three buckets worth and putting down a layer of mulch to protect the from that rapid evaporation

Cooling Cities By...

 cleaning out the nest. The sand can reach a scorching 70 centigrade. The ants' long legs raise their bodies above the surface,

Antlion Cone Death Trap...

 a scorching 70 centigrade the ants long legs raise their bodies above the

Scorch

Intensity Matters

Not Always Intentional

Physical Marks

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