The Consolation of Nature: Spring in the Time of Coronavirus

From the first few pages this book feels like an essential read – and one that will be of enduring importance long after this difficult year is behind us. The strange coincidence that it highlights (of one of the most beautiful and sunniest springs on record, occurring at the very moment we went into lockdown) is a fact historians will want to record when trying to understand *what it was like* living through this momentous year. More importantly, the book invites us to reflect on humankind's relationship with nature -- how it can be consolation in times of hardship, but also how our own actions have put its future in peril. Which is as much to say, our future. An important testament.

A very narrow interpretation from well established very English writers who have jumped early on to the bandwagon of what most sensible people know - that the outdoors is good for you, virus or not. I found it very irritating.