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Jay Griffiths (born in Manchester) is an award-winning British writer and author of Wild: An Elemental Journey, Pip Pip: A Sideways Look at Time, Anarchipelago, A Love Letter from a Stray Moon, Kith: The Riddle of the Childscape and Tristimania: A Diary of Manic Depression.

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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.

Embodied, Empathy, Humanity, Part, Singing

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

Double, Knowledge, Medicine, Mind, Tree, Trees

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

Children, Language, Silence, Unhappy

A wild creature is not subject to any will except its own

Creature, Creatures, Except, Subjects, Wild, Wild Creatures

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

Galileo, Heretic, Make

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.

Found, Grace, Individual, Time, Timing

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.

Areas, Holiday, People, Racist, White, Wilderness

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.

Climate, Ideas, Knows, Media, Society

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

Quickly, Want, Write, Writing

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

Acknowledge, Culture, Cultures, Loss, People

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.

Democracy, True, Vote, Voting

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.

Children, Scrubby, Space, Thinking, Towards, Under

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.

Animal, Cat, Lit, Squirrel, Squirrels

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.

Argue, Facts, Measurement, Opposites, Synonym

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 dolphins, which fill the oceans with blipping and chirping, and whales, which mew and caw in ultramarine jazz - a true rhapsody in blue - are hunted to the edge of silence.

Blue, Medicine, Ocean, Whales, Wisdom

What is wild cannot be bought or sold, borrowed or copied. It is. Unmistakeable, unforgettable, unshamable, 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.

Air, Bought, Fire, Ice Water, Spirit, Wild

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

Duty, Messenger, Messengers, Writer

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

Democratic, Freedom, Important, Media, Voting