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John Evelyn: Britain’s First Environmentalist

Gillian Darley OBE · Gresham College

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About

Air pollution, the usefulness of trees, ideas for a green belt are not concerns we associate with the 1600s. But John Evelyn, writer, diarist and gardener, was unusual. His thinking in Fumifugium (1661) about air quality, and Sylva (1664) about trees, seems astonishingly close to our own today.

The talk

  1. John Evelyn: Britain’s First Environmentalist 2020-10-29 · YouTube

Credits and licence

Institution
Gresham College
Speaker
Gillian Darley OBE
Year
2020
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Earth and environment, Literature and writing, Art, architecture and design
Source
Gresham College
Licence
Educational use (Gresham College's terms), as Gresham College states it. Gresham College's terms
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