In many traditions, the world was sung into being: Aboriginal Australians believe their ancestors did so. In Hindu and Buddhist thought, Om was the seed syllable that created the world.
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
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
If people can't acknowledge the wisdom of indigenous cultures, then that's their loss. - Jay Griffiths
If people can't acknowledge the wisdom of indigenous cultures, then that's their loss.
As a writer you have a duty to be a messenger. - Jay Griffiths
As a writer you have a duty to be a messenger.
The losses of the natural world are our loss, their silence silences something within the human mind. - Jay Griffiths
The losses of the natural world are our loss, their silence silences something within the human mind.
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
Singing with others is an unmediated, shared experience as each person feels the same music reverberating in their individual bodies. Singing is part…
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
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 …
A wild creature is not subject to any will except its own - Jay Griffiths
A wild creature is not subject to any will except its own
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
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…
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
We are animal in our blood and in our skin. We were not born for pavements and escalators but for thunder and mud.
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