It was a balmy summer day when Ed, Jamie and John drove down to interview Professor James Lovelock, or Jim as he prefers to be known, at his home-cum-nature-reserve on the Cornish boarder near Launceston. Jim has turned his abode and the land around it into a wonderful nature reserve, where the land has been allowed, as far as possible, to revert to its natural state. Through the meadows and woodlands, Jim maintains a series of paths, and at his suggestion we wandered around these talking for several hours on a range of pressing subjects. We were there to get a measure of this great man, and the full sprawling interview is outlined at this link. However, we also thought that it might be useful for those of you who are pressed for time (so little time, so little time, so little sense of what time really is) to summarise our impressions of the man.
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