Human language is lit with animal life: we play cats-cradle or have hare-brained ideas; we speak of badgering, or outfoxing someone; to… — 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
