"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."

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Source : Jay Griffiths (2007). “Wild: An Elemental Journey”, p.168, Penguin UK

Jay Griffiths

#Fire Quotes #Air Quotes #Ice Quotes

“My library card. Every hurdle I've faced, I have researched my way over at a library. I'm grateful for that part of the American spirit that believes every citizen should have access to books.”
“Rap music is just computerised crap. I listen to Top of the Pops and after three songs I feel like killing someone.”

Source : "The Beatles - After the Break-up : In Their Own Words". Book by David Bennahum (p. 54), 1991.
“The apprehension of... values is intuitive; but it is not a built-in intuition, not something with which one is born. Intuition in art is actually the result of... prolonged tuition.”
“Keep going until your efforts start to make things better in your hometown.”
“Women are asking what privileges their own breadwinning buys.”
“I had plenty of offers to do sponsorships and TV commercials, but it's just not in me. I would love to get that out of me, but I just don't feel comfortable with it.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The way people move is their autobiography in motion.”
“The crazy creatives are the creatives who never go completely mad. They aren't so easily disheartened by the seemingly endless amounts of scrutiny that creative individuals tend to receive because they, like insanity, are the ones who feed off of opposition and negative feedback and manage to continue along with a healthy ambition. It is the crazy that teaches us to use our gifts wisely and own all the attackers.”

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