and i rememberwaking up, seeing the sun and smelling the flowers and saying in a croaky voice through my tracheostomy tube, i m going to live. and i did. and so, i ve become evangelical now about hospital gardens being a way of showing the healing power of nature, which actually worked for me, and works for everyone. and what is becoming more and more aware partly as a result, i say, of covid. but do you think, to use the terrible cliche, that covid is a wake up call for us all, that there is something desperately out of kilter between our, that is human as a species, humanity s relationship with the planet? and i just wonder whether we all need to reflect on that? and maybe you, robin hanbury tenison, need to reflect on it, too. you ve talked about guilt in this interview, but you, after all, have spent a life jetting around the world to go and visit remote places. do we all need to think at this point in the planet s history about whether we can continue to behave in the way we h
is something desperately out of kilter between our, that is human as a species, humanity s relationship with the planet? and i just wonder whether we all need to reflect on that? and maybe you, robin hanbury tenison, need to reflect on it, too. you ve talked about guilt in this interview, but you, after all, have spent a life jetting around the world to go and visit remote places. do we all need to think at this point in the planet s history about whether we can continue to behave in the way we have in the past? yes and yes. you couldn t be more right about that. i was ready, just before this covid thing happened, to make an announcement that i was going to give up all long haul travel. really? i ve been incredibly lucky. i ve lived in a sort of goldilocks era when it was acceptable to travel long distances and explore the areas that you saw, instead of the victorian travellers who had to take two or three years to do everything, and then more years to explore. we ve had a wonderful pe
humanity s relationship with the planet? and i just wonder whether we all need to reflect on that? and maybe you, robin hanbury tenison, need to reflect on it, too. you ve talked about guilt in this interview, but you, after all, have spent a life jetting around the world to go and visit remote places. do we all need to think at this point in the planet s history about whether we can continue to behave in the way we have in the past? yes and yes. you couldn t be more right about that. i was ready, just before this covid thing happened, to make an announcement that i was going to give up all long haul travel. really? i ve been incredibly lucky. i ve lived in a sort of goldilocks era when it was acceptable to travel long distances and explore the areas that you saw, instead of the victorian travellers who had to take two or three years to do everything, and then more years to explore. we ve had a wonderful period during which we were able to do it. it s jolly unfair. lots of young people
being a way of showing the healing power of nature, which actually worked for me, and works for everyone. and what is becoming more and more aware partly as a result, i say, of covid. but do you think, to use the terrible cliche, that covid is a wake up call for us all, that there is something desperately out of kilter between our, that is human as a species, humanity s relationship with the planet? and i just wonder whether we all need to reflect on that? and maybe you, robin hanbury tenison, need to reflect on it, too. you ve talked about guilt in this interview, but you, after all, have spent a life jetting around the world to go and visit remote places. do we all need to think at this point in the planet s history about whether we can continue to behave in the way we have in the past? yes and yes. you couldn t be more right about that. i was ready, just before this covid thing happened, to make an announcement that i was going to give up all long haul travel. really? i ve been in
to reflect on it, too. you ve talked about guilt in this interview, but you, after all, have spent a life jetting around the world to go and visit remote places. do we all need to think at this point in the planet s history about whether we can continue to behave in the way we have in the past? yes and yes. you couldn t be more right about that. i was ready, just before this covid thing happened, to make an announcement that i was going to give up all long haul travel. really? i ve been incredibly lucky. i ve lived in a sort of goldilocks era when it was acceptable to travel long distances and explore the areas that you saw, instead of the victorian travellers who had to take two or three years to do everything, and then more years to explore. we ve had a wonderful period during which we were able to do it. it s jolly unfair. lots of young people all say they want to do it, too. and i have to say, i think long haul flights, without a very good reason, are now out until they have electr