Jay Griffiths

Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of…

— Jay Griffiths

Language is wild - you can't fence it or tell it what to do - and it's the same with people. Even…

— Jay Griffiths

In many traditions, the world was sung into being: Aboriginal Australians believe their ancestors did so. In Hindu and Buddhist thought, Om…

— Jay Griffiths

We are animal in our blood and in our skin. We were not born for pavements and escalators but for thunder and…

— Jay Griffiths

As a writer you have a duty to be a messenger.

— Jay Griffiths

All definitions of wilderness that exclude people seem to me to be false. African 'wilderness' areas are racist because indigenous people are…

— Jay Griffiths

Clearly, many branches of science need an exquisite precision of timekeeping and the infinitesimal decimals of calibration, so space launches, for example,…

— Jay Griffiths

A wild creature is not subject to any will except its own

— Jay Griffiths

All humans are essentially wild creatures and hate confinement. We need what is wild, and we thrill to it, our wildness bubbling…

— 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…

— Jay Griffiths

I don't write quickly, and I don't want to.

— Jay Griffiths

“My brothers and I spent weeks with our grandparents by the sea where we learned so much more than it may have…

— Jay Griffiths

A functional media is as important to democratic freedom as voting.

— 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…

— Jay Griffiths

Singing with others is an unmediated, shared experience as each person feels the same music reverberating in their individual bodies. Singing is…

— Jay Griffiths

“The wild. I have drunk it, deep and raw, and heard it's primal, unforgettable roar. We know it in our dreams, when…

— Jay Griffiths

“What is wild cannot be bought or sold, borrowed or copied. It is. Unmistakable, unforgettable, unshakable, elemental as earth and ice, water,…

— Jay Griffiths

The woods are a place where children can go to think. Children gravitate towards these spaces. When I was a child it…

— Jay Griffiths

Children say they are unhappy in every language they have. They say it in silence, and they say it in riots.

— Jay Griffiths

If people can't acknowledge the wisdom of indigenous cultures, then that's their loss.

— Jay Griffiths

Clock measurement is not time itself. In fact, so opposed are they that one could argue the clock is not a synonym,…

— Jay Griffiths

Just because Galileo was a heretic doesn't make every heretic a Galileo.

— Jay Griffiths

The clock, for all its precision in measurement, is a blunt instrument for the psyche and for society. Schedules can replace sensitivity…

— Jay Griffiths

The losses of the natural world are our loss, their silence silences something within the human mind.

— Jay Griffiths

I'm not against entertainment: if someone wants to read nonsense-mongers, let them, but I resent the appearance of parity between two articles…

— Jay Griffiths