![]() It is a kind of day-long effort to get your mind into the right position to live and speak well." We are in the most extraordinary moment and we cannot afford to be complacent. "You say I'm fierce but I think you have to be. A walk with Oswald is never going to be peaceful – she says she's allergic to the word. Seen through Oswald's eyes, this gently rolling Devon countryside is a battleground for survival: each plant fighting for light in the crowded hedgerow the trees whose roots cling to the river bank engaged in an epic struggle for life. I have this exercise where I force myself to look out from the flower's point of view at these great walloping humans coming down the path, and try, just try and feel it from their point of view because it's a different world to them, a fascinating hard one." ![]() The most extraordinary colours, but I have to force my eye behind the flower. "Yes, we were walking through stitchwort, wild garlic, campion, blue bells and buttercups. There's a whole range of words that people use about landscape. ![]() And I am trying to enquire of the landscape itself what it feels about itself rather than bringing in advertising skills. ![]() "I'm continually smashing down the nostalgia in my head. ![]()
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