Wild: An Elemental Journey - Jay Griffiths - k
Wild: An Elemental Journey - Jay Griffiths - k I took seven years over this work, spent all I had, my time, money and energy. I got ill, I got well. Part of the journey was a green riot and part a…
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Wild: An Elemental Journey - Jay Griffiths - k
I took seven years over this work, spent all I had, my time, money and energy. I got ill, I got well. Part of the journey was a green riot and part a deathly bleakness.
I met cannibals infinitely kinder and more trustworthy than the murderous missionaries who evangelize them. I went to the freedom fighters of West Papua and sang my head off in their highlands. I anchored a boat to an iceberg where polar bears slept; ate witchetty grubs and visited sea gypsies.
I found a paradox of wildness in the glinting softness of its charisma, for what is savage is in the deepest sense gentle and what is wild is kind. In the end - a strangely sweet result - I came back to a wild home...