Daniel Firth Griffith

“We live in what we perceive to be a broken land—fires ravage our western boundaries, acid rains water our failing crops, and our climate is trying to kick us out—but it is our relationship that is broken and relationships are easy to fix. They require humility, acknowledgement, openness, and shared language. Really, if they require anything of us at all, they require us to stop talking and to start listening—listening for the hope that they have stored deep within their ageless marrow, deep below the punishing reach of the plow and the spade, deep below the place where technology’s roots can reach, but shallow enough for photosynthetic processes to penetrate. Yes, grass can do that.”
― Daniel Firth Griffith, Wild Like Flowers

“Community...is the unseen energy that animates, propels, and connects; it is a story that grows; and it is our story.”
― Daniel Firth Griffith, Boone: An Unfinished Portrait

“To be means to be useful; to have means to profit at the expense of use. Profit and use, control and relationship.”
― Daniel Firth Griffith, Wild Like Flowers

“To uncultivate means to be both the clay and the pot, an element with promise and a tool entirely empty, without context—without water, without the potter, without life itself.”
― Daniel Firth Griffith, Wild Like Flowers