Rory Stewart

But one of the points that's made there by a professor at Cambridge is that, on your social prescribing point, when you go out into woodland,

You're literally breathing in molecules from these trees.

When you're smelling pine trees, you're taking the pine molecules into your bloodstream.

And some of these molecules have impacts similar in impact to almost prescription drugs.

There's also data that shows that every 300 meters further away you are from a piece of green space in a city.

your health and your general indicators decline dramatically.

Okay, and you are a parent of young children in London.

Everybody will presumably go through what I went through on Saturday, which is what the hell do I do with kids on the weekend, right?

And there's a limit to how much you can schlep around the zoo or go to the museum.

Imagine if you could get on a train from central London and be immediately in the middle of one of the greatest forests.

And there is the Greenbelt.

Nobody's using it.

It's a sort of horrible post-industrial golf course zone that nobody can build houses on because of legislation, but nobody's making it work for nature.

Although we should say we're pretty blessed with parks and...

Huge tribute to how well we do with that.

But what we don't have are really lovely natural forest spaces.

I mean, imagine how wonderful it would be to be able to walk for 20 miles through an incredible native forest.

Yeah.

Just on the outskirts of London.

Sorry.