Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
CHARLES: I’VE FOUND COMFORT IN NATURE
How prince copes with coronavirus nightmare
PRINCE Charles has revealed he turned to nature to help lift his mood during the coronavirus crisis.
The senior royal, who was struck down with the disease in March, also urged people to look after each other during the winter months ahead. And he praised the resilience of rural c o mmu n i t i e s in the pandemic. Speaking of his own experiences, Charles said: “In seeking solace during this challenging time, I have turned again directly to the natural world for the answers, as our ancestors did so often.
“Over the past months, amid all the disruption to the outward appearance of our lives, what has been increasingly apparent is the profound strength of our society. Its stoical determination to keep doing the right thing.
“If the life of the land teaches anything, it is the need to look at the long-term… at the deep and enduring strengths and qualities that continue through the slow rhythm of the seasons, through nature’s ever-rejuvenating generation of new life.”
In a piece for Country Life to mark his 72nd birthday tomorrow, the prince told how the world had experienced changes that could never have been foreseen since he last wrote for the magazine at Easter. He added: “Nowhere has this been more apparent than in our rural communities, where people are long accustomed to looking out for one another, taking the long view. As we move into the darker months of the year, those qualities will be called upon again. I am sure that they will not be found wanting.” Charles also told of the need to help family farms, find solutions to on-farm plastics, and embrace agro-ecological farming.
He and wife Camilla travel to Germany tomorrow for Remembrance services in Berlin on Sunday.
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