Ethne clarke biography for kids
Sir Harold Acton walking in his garden at Villa La Pietra, , by Ethne Clarke.
Sir Harold Acton walking in his garden at Villa La Pietra, , by Ethne Clarke.!
We’re living in interesting times – honestly, I wish the days were rather more dull. In Colorado along the Front Range where I garden we’ve had a few drops of rain and some snowflakes floating around without purpose.
Everything and everybody is stressed out; a couple of days ago, howling winds shook the remaining leaves from the peach tree.
Donald Clarke has been a lifelong music freak.I check Pike’s Peak daily from our living room window for snowpack on the summit; a bit like reading tea leaves for the coming season’s water supplies. Some days are better than others. Inevitably.
That’s not to say efforts are not being made, albeit unevenly, with less than 100% buy-in from world leaders.
However, artists of every stripe are making statements to drive home the message that with ingenuity, investment and involvement, the future will not be as bleak as it might be. At the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (aka COP26) British architect ES Devlin created “Conference of the Trees” by turning the New York Times c