Although Tony Blair said before the election that the end of the foot-and- mouth epidemic was in sight, this has not yet proved to be the case, with fresh outbreaks in Yorkshire and beyond. James Dudley-Smith turns the early chapters of Genesis into an eco-parable for today.
This is the account of Britain and Ireland when they were created.
The Lord God planted a garden in the world and he called it Britain, and there he put the man he had formed. The Lord God made all kinds of trees to grow out of the ground - oaks and chestnuts and elms. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The Thames and the Esk and other rivers watered the garden.
