--- title: "1 Course Nature Quotes By Jay Griffiths" description: "1 Course Nature quotes by Jay Griffiths. Plus more from Jay Griffiths and more Course Nature sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2c6/jay-griffiths-20658_golf_and-we-were-taught-to-play-golf-golf-epi_2858466.png" --- > [“And we were taught to play golf. Golf epitomizes the tame world. On a golf course nature is neutered. The grass is clean, a lawn laundry that wipes away the mud, the insect, the bramble, nettle and thistle, an Eezy-wipe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-griffiths/and-we-were-taught-to-play-golf-golf-epitomizes-the-tame-world-on-a/) [Jay Griffiths](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-griffiths/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2c6/jay-griffiths-20658_golf_and-we-were-taught-to-play-golf-golf-epi_2858466.png) ## More by Jay Griffiths > [Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-griffiths/society-understands-the-architecture-of-academia-and-knows-there-are/) [Jay Griffiths](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-griffiths/) > [Language is wild - you can't fence it or tell it what to do - and it's the same with people. Even under the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-griffiths/language-is-wild-you-can-t-fence-it-or-tell-it-what-to-do-and-it-s/) [Jay Griffiths](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-griffiths/) > [In many traditions, the world was sung into being: Aboriginal Australians believe their ancestors did so. In Hindu and Buddhist thought, Om was the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-griffiths/in-many-traditions-the-world-was-sung-into-being-aboriginal/) [Jay Griffiths](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-griffiths/) > [We are animal in our blood and in our skin. We were not born for pavements and escalators but for thunder and mud.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-griffiths/we-are-animal-in-our-blood-and-in-our-skin-we-were-not-born-for/) [Jay Griffiths](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-griffiths/) > [As a writer you have a duty to be a messenger.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-griffiths/as-a-writer-you-have-a-duty-to-be-a-messenger/) [Jay Griffiths](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-griffiths/) > [All definitions of wilderness that exclude people seem to me to be false. African 'wilderness' areas are racist because indigenous people are being cleared…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-griffiths/all-definitions-of-wilderness-that-exclude-people-seem-to-me-to-be/) [Jay Griffiths](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-griffiths/) > [Clearly, many branches of science need an exquisite precision of timekeeping and the infinitesimal decimals of calibration, so space launches, for example, are not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-griffiths/clearly-many-branches-of-science-need-an-exquisite-precision-of/) [Jay Griffiths](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-griffiths/) > [A wild creature is not subject to any will except its own](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-griffiths/a-wild-creature-is-not-subject-to-any-will-except-its-own/) [Jay Griffiths](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-griffiths/) > [All humans are essentially wild creatures and hate confinement. We need what is wild, and we thrill to it, our wildness bubbling over with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-griffiths/all-humans-are-essentially-wild-creatures-and-hate-confinement-we/) [Jay Griffiths](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-griffiths/) > [Human language is lit with animal life: we play cats-cradle or have hare-brained ideas; we speak of badgering, or outfoxing someone; to squirrel something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-griffiths/human-language-is-lit-with-animal-life-we-play-cats-cradle-or-have/) [Jay Griffiths](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-griffiths/) > [I don't write quickly, and I don't want to.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-griffiths/i-don-t-write-quickly-and-i-don-t-want-to/) [Jay Griffiths](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-griffiths/) > [“My brothers and I spent weeks with our grandparents by the sea where we learned so much more than it may have seemed. Not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-griffiths/my-brothers-and-i-spent-weeks-with-our-grandparents-by-the-sea-where/) [Jay Griffiths](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-griffiths/) > [A functional media is as important to democratic freedom as voting.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-griffiths/a-functional-media-is-as-important-to-democratic-freedom-as-voting/) [Jay Griffiths](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-griffiths/) > [Time is found in the calibration of the individual to the timing of a collective endeavour, the social grace that less clock-bound societies must…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-griffiths/time-is-found-in-the-calibration-of-the-individual-to-the-timing-of-a/) [Jay Griffiths](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-griffiths/) > [Singing with others is an unmediated, shared experience as each person feels the same music reverberating in their individual bodies. Singing is part of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-griffiths/singing-with-others-is-an-unmediated-shared-experience-as-each-person/) [Jay Griffiths](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-griffiths/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/course-nature/jay-griffiths/#itemlist", "name": "1 Course Nature Quotes By Jay Griffiths", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“And we were taught to play golf. Golf epitomizes the tame world. On a golf course nature is neutered. The grass is clean, a lawn laundry that wipes away the mud, the insect, the bramble, nettle and thistle, an Eezy-wipe lawn where nothing of life, dirty and glorious, remains. Golf turns outdoors into indoors, a prefab mat of stultified grass, processed, pesticided, herbicided, the pseudo-green of formica sterility. Here, the grass is not singing. 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