Deep Green Earth
The personal website of Joe Gray
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“ None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild. ” — John Muir
The deep green worldview
The deep green worldview sees hawks, hawthorns, and all the other beings that make up the more-than-human world as having value and meaning in their own right, not just as a result of any benefits that humans might derive from their existence. In this worldview, when an ancient hedge is destroyed, for instance, it is ethically wrong not simply because it deprives humans of anything they might have gained – materially, aesthetically, or spiritually – from its continuing existence. It has also caused an immeasurably greater wrong to the living system that is the hedge, as well as to the populations of species that used this as part of their life cycle.
This ethical extension from considering only 'instrumental' (human-benefiting) value to also recognizing 'intrinsic' (independent) value is neither trivial nor merely academic. Rather, its far-reaching practical implications represent an unparalleled opportunity: the chance to save much of the radiation of life with which we share the ecosphere from the cresting wave of extinction. Nothing else, I believe, gives this same hope.
Pebble hook-tip moth, Scotland
Impudent Raven
Impudent Raven is a project that I run for self-publishing ebooks with an Earth-centred perspective, which can be found [HERE].
The Cairngorms Up-Close
'The Cairngorms Up-Close' is a project where I am documenting with close-up photography some of the less-acclaimed wild beings (as well as signs of some of the more famed denizens) of the Cairngorms National Park, and it can be found [HERE].
Quotation library
You can view a list of the quotations from which the one at the top of the home page is randomly drawn [HERE].
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Credits
This website has been designed using the following fonts: Barrio (Omnibus-Type; Open Font Licence) and Open Sans (Steve Matteson; Apache Licence, Version 2.0). The stylized howling wolf in the Deep Green Earth logo (below) was adapted from artwork created by 'oriu'. The wolf eyes artwork was created through combining a black-and-white sketch by 'ElemenTxD' with a green fire image by 'schankz'.
