Nature is the ultimate Christmas gift: let's protect it

Even in an ordinary English garden, the clean lines of winter please the eye and rest the soul. This Christmas, it’s time to appreciate the inestimable value of the gift found just outside our front doorsThe rich diversity of the world around us, from the smallest insect to the music of the stars, is from the perspective of the human race, a gift. For the purposes of this article, I don’t think it matters whether you think creation (even Darwin’s theory of evolution itself) mus