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Top 20 Jay Griffiths Quotes (2024 Update)

Jay Griffiths Quote: “Being adequately informed is a democratic duty, just as the vote is a democratic right. A misinformed electorate, voting without knowledge, is not a true democracy.”

1. “Being adequately informed is a democratic duty, just as the vote is a democratic right. A misinformed electorate, voting without knowledge, is not a true democracy.”

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Jay Griffiths Quote: “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.”

2. “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.”

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Jay Griffiths Quote: “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.”

3. “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.”

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Jay Griffiths Quote: “The losses of the natural world are our loss, their silence silences something within the human mind.”

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

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Jay Griffiths Quote: “If people can’t acknowledge the wisdom of indigenous cultures, then that’s their loss.”

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

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Jay Griffiths Quote: “We are animal in our blood and in our skin. We were not born for pavements and escalators but for thunder and mud.”

6. “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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Jay Griffiths Quote: “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.”

7. “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.”

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Jay Griffiths Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

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Jay Griffiths Quote: “A wild creature is not subject to any will except its own.”

9. “A wild creature is not subject to any will except its own.”

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Jay Griffiths Quote: “The clock, for all its precision in measurement, is a blunt instrument for the psyche and for society. Schedules can replace sensitivity to the mood of a moment, clock time can ride roughshod over the emotions of individuals.”

10. “The clock, for all its precision in measurement, is a blunt instrument for the psyche and for society. Schedules can replace sensitivity to the mood of a moment, clock time can ride roughshod over the emotions of individuals.”

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Jay Griffiths Quote: “The silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of trees but a deforestation of the mind’s music, medicine and knowledge.”

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

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Jay Griffiths Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

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Jay Griffiths Quote: “Clock measurement is not time itself. In fact, so opposed are they that one could argue the clock is not a synonym, but the opposite of time.”

13. “Clock measurement is not time itself. In fact, so opposed are they that one could argue the clock is not a synonym, but the opposite of time.”

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Jay Griffiths Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

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Jay Griffiths Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

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Jay Griffiths Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

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Jay Griffiths Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

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Jay Griffiths Quote: “Human language is lit with animal life: we play cats-cradle or have hare-brained ideas; we speak of badgering, or outfoxing someone; to squirrel something away and to ferret it out.”

18. “Human language is lit with animal life: we play cats-cradle or have hare-brained ideas; we speak of badgering, or outfoxing someone; to squirrel something away and to ferret it out.”

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Jay Griffiths Quote: “As a writer you have a duty to be a messenger.”

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

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Jay Griffiths Quote: “A functional media is as important to democratic freedom as voting.”

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

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Jay Griffiths Quote: “Children say they are unhappy in every language they have. They say it in silence, and they say it in riots.”

21. “Children say they are unhappy in every language they have. They say it in silence, and they say it in riots.”

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Jay Griffiths Quote: “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.”

22. “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.”

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Jay Griffiths Quote: “Just because Galileo was a heretic doesn’t make every heretic a Galileo.”

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

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Jay Griffiths Quote: “I don’t write quickly, and I don’t want to.”

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

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