Jay Griffiths Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“The silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of trees but a deforestation of the mind's music, medicine and knowledge.”

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

“Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and accords greater respect to those with greater expertise. With one exception: climate science.”

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

“Singing with others is an unmediated, shared experience as each person feels the same music reverberating in their individual bodies. Singing is part of our humanity; it is embodied empathy.”

“Language is wild - you can't fence it or tell it what to do - and it's the same with people. Even under the worst excesses of Stalinism or consumerism, the human spirit will still express itself.”

“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 little overhang under a rhododendron bush, but it was incredibly important to me.”

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

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

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