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Jay Griffiths
British Author
Born: 1965
Knowledge Language Measurement Music Silence Time
Related authors: Dorothy L. Sayers George Eliot George Orwell Ian Fleming James Allen Marcus Buckingham Neil Gaiman Virginia Woolf
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
Wisdom Music God Silence Knowledge Long Edge Jazz Medicine Hunted Voices True Oceans Came Heard Dolphin Dolphins Cultures Whales Blue Form Which Apollo Fill
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 Knowledge Vote Voting Duty Adequately True Democratic Without Just Being Informed Electorate Right
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
Music Knowledge Mind Medicine Trees Deforestation Silencing Only Double
If people can't acknowledge the wisdom of indigenous cultures, then that's their loss. Jay Griffiths
Wisdom People Indigenous Loss Cultures Acknowledge Then
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
Life Animal Speak Language Out Someone Something Animal Life Ideas Squirrel Human Lit Human Language Away Play
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
Me Important Nothing Think Incredibly More Towards Go Than Child Where Children Woods Spaces Place Little Bush Gravitate
The losses of the natural world are our loss, their silence silences something within the human mind. Jay Griffiths
Silence Natural World Mind Our Silences Something Within Loss Losses Human Natural World Human Mind
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
Respect Science Architecture Society Those Relevant Exception Idea Academia Qualifications Knows Greater Accepts Understands Climate Different Expertise Fields Media
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
Entertainment Change Other Someone Parity Between Well Read Well-Informed Climate Climate Change Issue Article Articles Accurate Wants Against Informed Them Resent Appearance Serious Actually Two
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
Time Grace Collective Timing Must Individual Practise Endeavour Social Less Found Societies
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
Time Measurement Synonym Fact Could Argue Opposed Opposite Clock Itself In Fact
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. Jay Griffiths
Music Experience Humanity Singing Others Our Embodied Individual Part Shared Empathy Feels Person Same Bodies Each
A functional media is as important to democratic freedom as voting. Jay Griffiths
Freedom Voting Important Democratic Functional Media

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