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Nature's reset button, pressed with a flamethrower across a continent that secretly enjoys it.
means A wildfire that tears through bush, scrub, or grassland, especially in Australia, often spreading fast and unpredictably.
from Plain colonial Australian English: bush (the wild, uncleared land) plus fire, recorded from the 1830s as settlers met country built to burn.
Seed strategySome eucalypts only release seeds after fire.
Self-spreadingEucalyptus oil makes trees explosively flammable.
SpeedFires can outrun a sprinting human downhill.
Ancient practiceAboriginal fire-stick farming managed land for millennia.