Ecological writer Satish Kumar once wrote that ‘unless you know Nature, you cannot love her’. Likewise, if we wish to protect England’s green and pleasant land, it’s important to get to know why. People who drop fast food litter, pollute our seas with oil and hunt our precious wildlife, obviously were never taught all about why our land is so beautiful and precious.
Hertfordshire is ‘Miss Marple’ country (even though it was not filmed here). This is all tiny villages with lovely ponds and churches, along with a few towns in an affluent area that’s popular with commuters.
