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Virtually all energy (and life) on earth is a result of sunlight in one form or another (aside from small amounts that come from the earth's liquid core and extraterrestrial bodies colliding with earth).
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Yep, and we are also releasing the carbon that the tree absorbed from the atmosphere during it's lifetime back into the atmosphere. 
When the tree was alive it captured the CO2 from the atmosphere, used the carbon as it's own ‘building blocks’ and released the oxygen atoms back into the atmosphere. When we burn it it's like reversing that process. >

We're made of the same stuff stars are made out of. In a way, we are the sun. >

We are also made of the same stuff poop is made of. >

You both are correct.
It just depends on the mood, which statement you feel closer to that day. >

If you look at the night sky and consider the probability of those photons to be created in their origin stars, travel the vastness of space and simultaneously land on your eyeballs and be interpreted by your brain as something mundane is considered a miraculous event already. >

A photon created moments after the Big Bang; redshifted to a microwave background noise; 13.8 billion years on the road, hitting a detector constructed by a myriad of conscious, intelligent beings building on thousands of years of knowledge, helping them to understand where and how the universe came to be. The universe is a miracle, even more so the more you get to know it.