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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.
- Jay Griffiths
#God
#Knowledge
#Music
#Silence
#Wisdom
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.
- Jay Griffiths
#Democracy
#Duty
#Knowledge
#True
#Vote
Just because Galileo was a heretic doesn't make every heretic a Galileo.
- Jay Griffiths
#Because
#Every
#Just Because
#Just
#Make
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.
- Jay Griffiths
#Appearance
#Change
#Entertainment
#Two
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.
- Jay Griffiths
#Children
#Important
#Me
#Nothing
#Place
I don't write quickly, and I don't want to.
- Jay Griffiths
#Quickly
#Want
#Write
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.
- Jay Griffiths
#Indigenous People
#Indigenous
#Me
#White
Children say they are unhappy in every language they have. They say it in silence, and they say it in riots.
- Jay Griffiths
#Children
#Language
#Silence
#Unhappy
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.
- Jay Griffiths
#Clock
#Fact
#Measurement
#Opposite
#Time
A functional media is as important to democratic freedom as voting.
- Jay Griffiths
#Freedom
#Important
#Media
#Voting
The losses of the natural world are our loss, their silence silences something within the human mind.
- Jay Griffiths
#Human
#Loss
#Mind
#Silence
#World
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.
- Jay Griffiths
#Grace
#Individual
#Social
#Time
#Timing
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.
- Jay Griffiths
#Emotions
#Moment
#Ride
#Society
#Time
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.
- Jay Griffiths
#Animal
#Ideas
#Language
#Life
#Speak
If people can't acknowledge the wisdom of indigenous cultures, then that's their loss.
- Jay Griffiths
#Indigenous
#Loss
#People
#Then
#Wisdom
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.
- Jay Griffiths
#Architecture
#Respect
#Science
#Society
The silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of trees but a deforestation of the mind's music, medicine and knowledge.
- Jay Griffiths
#Knowledge
#Medicine
#Mind
#Music
#Only
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