"Deep ecology is a philosophy promoting the inherent worth of all living beings regardless of their utility to human needs plus a radical restructuring of modern human societies in accordance with such ideas. Deep ecology argues that the natural world is a subtle balance of complex relationships in which the existence of organisms is dependent upon the existence of other organisms within ecosystems." Artists accepted into the Deep Ecology Artists Fellowship Program stay at the United Plant Savers Botanical Sanctuary in Rutland, Ohio making art in response to and in relationship with the amazing diversity of native medicinal plants and the Appalachian forest ecosystem of the sanctuary. https://unitedplantsavers.org