All definitions of wilderness that exclude people seem to me to be false. African 'wilderness' areas are racist because indigenous people are being cleared out of them so white people can go on holiday there. — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
Language is wild - you can't fence it or tell it what to do - and it's the same with people. Even under the… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
In many traditions, the world was sung into being: Aboriginal Australians believe their ancestors did so. In Hindu and Buddhist thought, Om was the… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
We are animal in our blood and in our skin. We were not born for pavements and escalators but for thunder and mud. — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
All definitions of wilderness that exclude people seem to me to be false. African 'wilderness' areas are racist because indigenous people are being cleared… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
Clearly, many branches of science need an exquisite precision of timekeeping and the infinitesimal decimals of calibration, so space launches, for example, are not… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
All humans are essentially wild creatures and hate confinement. We need what is wild, and we thrill to it, our wildness bubbling over with… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
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… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
“My brothers and I spent weeks with our grandparents by the sea where we learned so much more than it may have seemed. Not… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
