Ask not what you can do for nature… Ask what nature can do for you

[Mike Shanahan]

In 1997 a British barrister uttered three words that left my sister and me speechless and gave us a glimpse of the future. 

As we walked along a road in Jersey, he stopped and asked: “What is that?” 

His voice was more shrill than normal and his eyes were wide open. He looked like a child who had just seen his first rainbow.

As his arm stretched out to point at a bird that had landed nearby, my sister and I were stunned to realise that he did not recognise one of his land’s most common creatures... Read the rest of this blog post at Under the Banyan.