What is wild cannot be bought or sold, borrowed or copied. It is. Unmistakable, unforgettable, unshamable, elemental as earth and ice, water, fire and air, a quintessence, pure spirit, resolving into no constituents.

— Jay Griffiths, from Wild: An Elemental Journey (2006), surfaced by Maria Popova. Griffiths spent years chasing what she calls “unfetteredness” before writing the book; the line reads like the destination she arrived at.