Deep Green Earth
The website of Joe Gray
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“ We are none of us good enough for the world we have. ” — Edward Abbey
The deep green worldview
The deep green worldview honours the intrinsic value of hawks, hornbeams, hoverflies, and all the other members of the more-than-human world. It is a profound ethical extension from considering only, or primarily, the instrumental benefits that arise for us from non-humans. And this is not merely in an academic sense. Rather, the far-reaching practical implications of this worldview include the imperative and motivation to save as many life forms as we possibly can from the cresting wave of mass extinction and, more broadly, to live in ways that support a flourishing of our non-human kin.
This worldview has both inspired much of my writing and reinforced the adoration that I have for all of the beings who live around me.
Mallard, Scotland
Obstinate Splendour
Obstinate splendour is a term that I use to celebrate those bursts of nature’s beauty – from pavement-crack wildflowers to inner-city carnivores – that defy human domination. I have launched a website to host writing that takes solace in these small and often ephemeral counterpoints to the ever-worsening plight of life on Earth, and it can be found [HERE].
Impudent Raven
Impudent Raven is a project that I run for self-publishing ebooks with an Earth-centred perspective. It 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 of the Cairngorms National Park. 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].
Social platform 
If you like what you find here and are kind enough to spread the word, you might, as a first option, consider sharing it with friends over a large mug of tea or similar.
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'.
