The smell, feel, and beauty of burning wood occupies a holy place in the human psyche.
You've got that right!...There's no other kind of heat that satisfies like a wood fire...G-D knew/knows what He's doing...Gotta throw another piece of cedar on the fire now....
FMCDH
The smoke from our wood burning fireplace used to whiff it's way across the street to our early rising dairy farmer. He'd remark on how much he enjoyed it. The problem with those Berkley folks is they've robbed themselves of those things that bless the soul.
Most human evolution has occurred next to a wood burning fire place. Because of that it's in our genes. Most people who aren't romantic about fire places were weeded out long ago. I'm sure nature is slowly doing its work on the Berkeley gene pool.