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Put it like this — it must take a lot of gas to heat a palace. yes, yes. but i have tried for a very long time to make sure the heating is done in a way that is as sustainable as possible. so you use trees from the estate? yes. its woodchip. but it is thinning. but that is one way and then the solar panels which ive managed to get on to clarence house and at highgrove on some of the farm buildings and every kind of thing like that, and sauce, pumps, here and there. trying to reduce as much pos...

Certainly in the forecast through the afternoon across the south and the southwest. that could bump up temperatures to around 17 but for most of us, it is going to stay cloudy through the evening and through the night, little pieces of rain. and, in fact, we�*ve got more wet weather heading our way for tomorrow. it�*s just approaching ireland in the early hours monday morning and of it, very, very mild, double temperatures for most of us first thing. and certainly by mid morning, we�*ve go...

For your grandchildren. all of our grandchildren, if weve got them, if we are lucky enough to have them, will inherit the earth that we bequeath them, wont they? how worried are you about the state of that inheritance? deeply worried. its the main reason ive spent a0 years or more... 50 years, i think. 50, if you look at my sort of rather hesitant steps at the beginning. but i have always felt that we are over exploiting and not understanding how much we depend on what nature provides. and also ...

You have said this is a very special place for you in the past, this is your happy place. what is so special about birkhall and balmoral? one of the most marvellous things is it is by this river called the muick. and it has this wonderful sound of rushing water when you are in the house. it is very calming and peaceful, ithink. but also, it was the first place that queen victoria herself bought in 1848. 0h, on the balmoral estate? before they brought balmoral. and that is how... well, it has a v...

Of the cycles of nature. what was it back then, can you remember, that made you anxious about nature, made you anxious about what we are doing to the environment? when i was a teenager, i minded deeply about what was happening. id witnessed, you know, the white—hot heat of the 1960s and technology, and getting rid of anything traditional, it was all ridiculous and outdated and irrelevant. so i witnessed, you know, hedges being grabbed up, trees being cut down, wetlands drained. i mean, you can...

Things too far, you will always create an equal and opposite reaction, which is exactly what has happened. but in the meantime, if youre the idiot that suggests all of this, youre immediately accused of being an idiot. and that is exactly what happened. you got a lot of stick, if you dont mind me saying. i was accused of being anti—science. well, you got a lot of stick for kind of talking about nature, talking about the climate. i mean, you were teased, i remember, for talking to your plants. ...

Very, very mild, double temperatures for most of us first thing. and certainly by mid morning, weve got rain moving through the southwest and across many western areas of the uk, and most of that rain will end up, i think, in the north. but extremely mild tomorrow, 18, maybe 19 degrees and that is despite all of the cloud and rain. and take a look at the temperatures, they could get up to around 20 or 21 in the southeast on tuesday and then it turns cooler and a little bit more settled for frida...

Example, arent they? i think alan your gardener was saying they cant germinate now because the winters are too warm and they need a period of below freezing and hes now taken the rowan berries and put them in your freezer! this is the thing, and theres so much more to life and the world than we think. so, were busily destroying, still, through deforestation, the destruction of habitats that are so rapidly dwindling, you know, were destroying our future by making extinct things that have not been...

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