“A functional media is as important to democratic freedom as voting.” ~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 anarchic joie de vivre. We glint when the wild light shines. The more suffocatingly enclosed we are - tamed by television, controlled by mortgages and bureaucracy - the louder our wild genes scream in aggression, anger and depression.” ~Jay Griffiths
“As a writer you have a duty to be a messenger.” ~Jay Griffiths
“If people can’t acknowledge the wisdom of indigenous cultures, then that’s their loss.” ~Jay Griffiths
“Every generation of children instinctively nests itself in nature, no matter matter how tiny a scrap of it they can grasp.” ~Jay Griffiths
"The human heart's love for nature cannot ultimately be concreted over. “ ~Jay Griffiths
“There are galaxies within the human mind, and madness wants to risk everything for the daring flight, reckless and beautiful and crazed. Everyone knows Icarus fell. But I love him for the fact that he dared to fly. Mania unfurls the invitation to fly too high, too near the sun, which will melt the wax of the mind, and the fall will be terrible.” ~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.… We are animal not only in body but in spirit. Our minds are the minds of wild animals. Artists, who remember their wildness better than most, are animal artists, lifting their heads to sniff a quick wild scent in the air, and they know it unmistakably, they know the tug of wildness to be followed through your life is buckled by that strange and absolute obedience.” ~Jay Griffiths
“What is wild cannot be bought or sold, borrowed or copied. It is. Unmistakable, unforgettable, unshakable, elemental as earth and ice, water, fire and air, a quintessence, pure spirit, resolving into no constituents. Don't waste your wildness: it is precious and necessary.” ~Wild: An Elemental Journey
