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

- 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 over with an anarchi…

- 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.

- Jay Griffiths

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

- Jay Griffiths

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

- 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…

- Jay Griffiths

Cultures have long heard wisdom in non-human voices: Apollo, god of music, medicine and knowledge, came to Delphi in the form of a dolphin. But dolph…

- Jay Griffiths

The woods are a place where children can go to think. Children gravitate towards these spaces. When I was a child it was nothing more than a scrubby …

- Jay Griffiths