The Great Outdoors

Access to nature is not a luxury – history proves it’s a necessity

IT’S A BIT GRIM out there, isn’t it? And I don’t mean the weather. I mean the world. I sometimes wonder if banging on about access to nature and green spaces is a bit of a luxury in the face of genocide, famine, terrorism and climate catastrophe. But then I look to history.

In 1935 writer and walker Tom Stephenson wrote an article for the responding to

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