JANE Whitehead's letter in the Citizen (October 28) raises three questions -- I would attempt an answer about humans. They are an odd mixture of good and bad.

To quote from William Barclay's book of Daily Readings "Man's pollution can define nature; but God is there".

If you allow me, I would like to go on to relate his story to illustrate that quotation.

"Millais, the famous artist tells how he came to see nature. His father, an old countryman, would take him out towards evening and they would lie beside the cornfield and watch the rabbits play and the corn sway like a wave of the sea beneath the breeze.

"One evening, as there came upon the world a sunset of un-utterable beauty, the old man rose, faced the splendour of the dying sun, took off his cap and said softly `My son, it is God'.

"There would be no more pollution and no more desecration if men would learn to revere not only God, but also his handiwork."

ROBERT GUY,

The Drive,

Harlow.

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