This essay, on the romanticisation of nature, was my Observer column this week. It was published on 10 May 2020, under the headline ‘Let’s stop romanticising nature. So much of our life depends on defying it’. Cormorants are hunting fish in the now clear waters of Venice. Wild boars roam the avenues of Barcelona and wild goats the streets of Llandudno. Above Los Angeles are blue skies. From smogless Delhi, you can once more glimpse the Himalayas. ‘The Earth is healing, we are the virus,’ runs […]

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