ABSTRACT
The environment is the room, the flat, the house where you live: the factory, the office, the shop where you work: your road, your parish, your village, town or city: Britain, Europe, the world – even the space the world sails through. It’s the street where your children play, the park they take the dog in, the flowers, the trees, the animals and birds, the fields, the crops, the streams, the waterfalls. It’s the fish, the cliffs, the seashore, the sea itself, the hills and the mountains, the pubs, the bingo halls, the lanes, the motorways, the highways and byways, the farms, the rows of shops and houses, the dustbins, the historic buildings, the trains and buses and cars … It’s the insects, an empty tin can, aeroplanes, pictures, pollen and the leaves that fall from the trees … It’s the air you breathe, the blue sky, peace and quiet, the clouds and the sun.
