Roger Morgan-Grenville - Five Minutes in Heaven: Swifts Return to my Garden
Description
I got bored of waiting and got lucky with hope and practical activism
Don’t laugh, but I once nearly went into mainstream politics.
Never mind when and for whom, but let me reassure you that the dream was a short one. I came to the early conclusion that there was a limited amount that a thin-skinned Etonian of no settled world view and the attention span of a mayfly had to offer people fighting real battles in their everyday lives, let alone deal with volcanically unpredictable leaders elsewhere in the world.
Besides, there was always that comment in one of my earliest army reports in the back of my mind: ‘I fear that this man will go through life pushing doors marked ‘pull’. Precisely. As I said, don’t laugh.
I lost interest in politics and instead rediscovered the natural world. I spent the next two decades coming to understand that other than climate change, most of the environmental challenges that beset us are much easier, quicker, cheaper and less controversial to fix than we imagine.
When I walked through Britain in the spring of 2022, I saw evidence of this over and over again- re-wetted peat on Kinder Scout, a re-meandered tributary of the Tweed above Peebles, a regenerating ‘ancient’ forest in Glen Affric- and I have been seeing it ever since.
Over the last year and a half, I have walked another 2000 miles or so round the coast, and seen it again in the offshore no-take zones, the eagles on Mull, the transformation of Holkham in Norfolk and many other things besides. Nature is resilient. So long as you haven’t killed it off, as we did with the Great Auk, you can probably bring it back.
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