Earlier this month, Mark took Professor Dieter Helm’s new “Green and Prosperous Land; a Blueprint for Rescuing the British Countryside” as the subject for his Sunday book review.
A Green and Prosperous Britain
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Waxing Poetic About Norfolk
I remember – I doubt in fact I shall ever forget – my first visit to the Simon Aspinall Wildlife Education Centre at Cley; it rendered me speechless. As an American, I am perpetually in awe of the astonishing wildlife reserves I have the privilege to visit in the UK, but this one truly was like nothing I had seen before, even among all the other jewels of the British wildlife reserves.
Mark Loans His Pen to Ian Carter This Week
“It is increasingly widely recognised that nature is good for us. Most of us instinctively know this to be true and the science is gradually getting to grips with how this works; the biochemistry of a visit to the local woods and its impacts on our health and well-being. Science is slowly unravelling the mechanisms by which stress hormone levels drop, beneficial neurotransmitter levels rise and our immune system gets a nudge in the right direction.”
Please Don’t Bother Mark; He’s Reading
Mark is deeply engrossed in two forthcoming books at the moment – “Rebirding” by Ben Macdonald, and “Bird Therapy” by Joe Harkness – both of which he promises to comment upon at length at a time closer to their respective official dates of publication.