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List of Jay Griffiths Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 26 inspiring quotes by Jay Griffiths.

About Jay Griffiths

  • Born: 1965
  • Occupation: Writer
    • I'm not against entertainment: if someone wants to read nonsense-mongers, let them, but i resent the appearance of parity between two articles on an issue as serious as climate change when one article is actually gibberish masked in pseudoscience and the other is well informed and accurate.
    Two Issues Climate
    Time is found in the calibration of the individual to the timing of a collective endeavour, the social grace that less clock-bound societies must practise.
    Grace Timing Individual
    I don't write quickly, and i don't want to.
    Writing Want
    As a writer you have a duty to be a messenger.
    Messengers Duty
    Clearly, many branches of science need an exquisite precision of timekeeping and the infinitesimal decimals of calibration, so space launches, for example, are not scheduled for leap-second dates. but society as a whole neither needs that obsessive time measurement nor is well served by it.
    Space Example Needs
    A functional media is as important to democratic freedom as voting.
    Media Voting Important
    Just because galileo was a heretic doesn't make every heretic a galileo.
    Heretic
    A wild creature is not subject to any will except its own
    Wild Creatures Creatures Subjects
    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.
    Buddhist Believe World
    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.
    Media Ideas Climate
    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.
    People Excess Spirit
    All definitions of wilderness that exclude people seem to me to be false. african 'wilderness' areas are racist because indigenous people are being cleared out of them so white people can go on holiday there.
    Holiday White People
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