You've gone camping. You have graham crackers, chocolate, and marshmallows and you are determined to turn them into gooey, delicious s’mores. You are famished from heroically setting up the tent and fending off bears. You are surrounded by stuff that will easily burn, if only you could mold it into the proper shape and then set that shape on fire. Connect to your primitive human roots and learn to start a fire, with or without easy solutions like matches, a lighter, or a flamethrower.
For starting a fire outside, without matches, you should go to the experts, The Boy Scouts. This pleasant teen shows you three excellent methods:
If you can't stand a teenager telling you what to do, what with that noise they call music and their weird haircuts, let The Art of Manliness's aged contributors tell you even more ways to start a fire. And ladies, this article is actually co-written by a female, so it's acceptable for you to read as well.
The same two people know so much about fire that they even wrote an article about building a fire in your fireplace, featuring the "upside down" fire method:
Your primitive ancestors would be grunting so proudly if they knew that their - necessary for survival - fire methods, would one day lead to you getting drunk and telling ghost stories over s’mores.