The Times today reports a speech made yesterday by Prince Charles in which he expresses sentiments very similar to those of our Letter to the Future campaign and also puts in a plea for birds to have a place to nest in our buildings.
Here are two quotes:
“I believe it is of crucial importance to work with, in harmony with nature, to rediscover how it is necessary to work with the grain of nature, as it is necessary to work with the grain of our humanity,” he said. “What is the point of all this clever technology if at the end of the day we lose our souls, and the soul of nature of which we are a part?” .
“It is immoral not to consider those other species that share this planet with us,” he said. “If the swallows and swifts stop coming here and nesting on the buildings that I love, then there is no point to life. Literally. It is symbolic, like the albatross. If that becomes extinct then I think we deserve nothing but reprobation.".
Elsewhere in the paper is a letter from a gentleman who used to see lots of buzzards in Shropshire and now sees lots of red kites - and wonders whether the two are related. Probably not I would have thought!
Wonder if the letter writer sees too many Welsh Blackbirds,that would prove they were doing too well,come to think of it our Blackbirds are singing with welsh accent.