by Joe Gray | May 19, 2025
It is a mild spring day in England, and I am on a passenger train headed for central London. I have a couple of unremarkable errands to run, and I am in no great hurry. In my carriage, I overhear a young child ask a grown-up one of those deceptively challenging questions that infant minds like to slip into a conversation from time to time. The inquiry is this: “What is the world?”…
In the Rewilding Reflections series, Joe Gray is taking us on some thoughtful journeys through the wider dimensions of rewilding.
by Joe Gray | Feb 17, 2025
When we think of rewilding, it is natural for our mind’s eye to open onto a wide vista, be it a swathe of forest untamed by wolves, a tract of grassland where large grazers have been renewed, or an expanse of ocean in which marine mammals, despite centuries of setbacks, are exuberant once again. But while such an outlook is broad in its perception of grandeur, it misses those smaller elements of life that are essential for the thriving of ecosystems and which contribute so much to the flourishing beauty of Earth…
In the Rewilding Reflections series, Joe Gray is taking us on some thoughtful journeys through the wider dimensions of rewilding.
by Joe Gray | Nov 21, 2024
The rewilding movement is delivering positive change around the planet, and the momentum behind it continues to grow. Through a plethora of interconnected projects, humanity is honouring nature and offering reparation for past misdeeds. Yet, within society at large, much of the language that we use in describing the more-than-human world is rooted in a history of exploitation…
In the Rewilding Reflections series, Joe Gray is taking us on some thoughtful journeys through the wider dimensions of rewilding.
Photo Credit: Eurasian magpie by Alexis Lours
by Joe Gray | Jul 30, 2024
It is Midsummer’s Eve, and as the sun slides towards the tree-obscured horizon behind me, I sit facing south, looking for ripples. My seat is a log by the edge of a large pond, in a place whose name is not important here. Beyond the water stand birches and pines, and above their green fringe rises a bald mountain ridge; but it is the pond’s topaz-blue veneer that holds my gaze…
This is the first of a series of Rewilding Reflections, in which Joe Gray will take us on some thoughtful journeys through the wider dimensions of rewilding.
