A Quote by Jay Griffiths

All humans are essentially wild creatures and hate confinement. We need what is wild, and we thrill to it, our wildness bubbling over with an anarchic joie de vivre. We glint when the wild light shines. The more suffocatingly enclosed we are - tamed by television, controlled by mortgages and bureaucracy - the louder our wild genes scream in aggression, anger and depression.

Jay Griffiths

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Aggression Anger Bureaucracy Confinement Controlled Creatures Depression Enclosed Essentially Genes Hate Humans Joie De Vivre Light Louder More Need Our Over Scream Shines Tamed Television Thrill Wild Wild Creatures Wildness

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Jay Griffiths
British - Author
Born: 1965

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Rudyard Kipling

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Juliette Lewis

Perhaps the most important thing we can ever do in our lives is find a way to keep the wild-both the wild inside and the wild outside us-and tap into it.

Anne Rivers Siddons

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Shannon Hale

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John Galsworthy

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Henry David Thoreau

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Henry David Thoreau

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Juliette Lewis

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Theodore Roosevelt

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Ansel Adams

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Phil Robertson

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Carl Safina

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