I Think We Need To Recover The

As Human Beings We Suffer From An Innate Tendency To Jump To Conclusions; To Judge People Too Quickly And To Pronounce Them Failures Or Heroes Without Due Consideration Of The Actual Facts And Ideals Of The Period.

This Was One Of Those Special Occasions When I Could Actually Feel The Inner Appreciation Of The Beauty Of The Moment Passing Like An Electric Current Through The Brush In My Hand.

Fast Food May Appear To Be Cheap Food And, In The Literal Sense It Often Is, But That Is Because Huge Social And Environmental Costs Are Being Excluded From The Calculations.

It Is Now 14 Years Since I First Suggested That Organic Farming Might Have Some Benefits And Ought To Be Taken Seriously. I Shall Never Forget The Vehemence Of The Reaction.. Much Of It Coming From The Sort Of People Who Regard Agriculture As An Industrial Process, With Production As The Sole Yardstick Of Success.

We Should Be Treating, I Think, The Whole Issue Of Climate Change And Global Warming With A Far Greater Degree Of Priority Than I Think Is Happening Now.