'The statistics pour down on us, telling us that we – we human beings – have wiped out sixty per cent of mammals, birds, fish and reptiles since 1970.' Photo: Rawpixel / Unsplash.
Thought for the week: Close and personal
‘When were you last close to crowds of grasshoppers?’
A member of our Meeting holds a regular poetry group, where Friends and their friends offer either favourite poems or their own work. Last time, I read ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’ by Thomas Gray.