Seeing a dinosaur the size of a building,
it's quite astounding, actually.
Just imagine what the world would have been like
when they were roaming the Earth.
Dippy makes us think.
There's something about just
being in the presence of a dinosaur
that kind of puts you in your place.
For me nature is
the balm that soothes my stress.
It all kind of just melts away.
Things slow down and you have a moment to actually breathe.
You don't spend loads of money going outside,
you can go out there freely.
How you access nature,
for me as a wheelchair user,
can be a real challenge.
But the benefits that nature can bring can be
a unique empowerment tool really.
Walking or getting on your bike,
rather than jumping in your car,
is just such an important way of seeing what's around you.
It's just giving yourself some time.
Every bit of land is important for wildlife.
It's good for people to feel connected with nature.
It's theirs to protect.
I think it's important to know what lives where you live.
One of the things that popped up in my front lawn
were some orchids.
So I changed the way I mow the lawn.
You start to protect what you've got.
It is important to realise
that we're actually affecting our planet.
Global warming, pollution –
we have to just improve our own ways.
Through education, through lobbying, through taking action,
we can prevent this from happening.
Nature takes time to heal.
We need to be patient to see changes come into effect.
Dippy being there just offered the chance to have conversations,
that there are positive impacts
that we can still have on our environment.
You can determine how things pan out.
It's all about us having a united voice on caring about nature.
The things that we do here in the UK
can have a wider impact globally.
We have a very human-centric view of the world.
What was the world like that Dippy encountered,
and how different was that from my world?
Growing up, a familiar sound to me was police sirens.
I'm now tuning in to a different frequency and hearing bird songs.
A different perspective to what my reality was.
We're so quick to discredit urban areas,
but there are fantastic little pockets of nature,
which are everywhere.
We need those areas,
for people to go to.
We got a garden at the back and that is our little safe haven.
It's the only time that my brain
can actually completely switch off.
After I'd seen Dippy,
I went in my garden and dug, hoping to find something.
Sometimes the best journeys you go on
are the ones that you don't go anywhere.
Just walk out your door and you will find nature,
if your senses are heightened to it.
Nature is wherever you choose to see it.
You can connect with something better once you're aware of it.
The awareness brings understanding of
what is right on our doorsteps,
and what we can actually appreciate and love.
What worries me
is the noise that we make as human beings –
will stop us listening
to what we really need to listen to.
We need to be a lot more humble.
Dippy was a great advocate for nature.
To draw people into parts of the landscape they weren't aware of.
We've got so much to celebrate in this country.
The variety of landscapes that we have,
just on our little island.
When you go into a genuinely old woodland,
it is so different from a woodland that's only 150 years old.
It's so much more diverse.
They're magic places.
And if it is cleared away, it will take centuries
to reach that same state again.
What we can learn from nature in terms of
the importance of diversity, is very real.
Probably mission-critical
to the survival of the planet.
Even though I've lived on a farm all my life,
I didn't realise how lucky I was
to just open the door and walk outside.
I wouldn't change it for the world.
As farmers, we have to work with nature –
nature is actually our livelihood.
We are a small part of the whole cycle of nature, really,
and we've got to be careful that we don't take it for granted
and we support it properly.
We need to look at practices within nature
to bring nature back to how it should be –
through adopting rewilding practices,
and towards very gentle farming of the landscape.
We all depend on nature –
we're not separate from it,
though we may often think we are.
We need to value the landscape.
There's something really calming about
the ebb and flow of the tide.
That sense that this has been happening for centuries,
before I've been here.
When you look at things from the past,
you realise the journey that the world has been on.
Dippy gave me a sense of perspective.
When you look at Dippy we have to really transport our mind,
to worlds that no longer exist.
Rocks are the clues. They're the keys.
It's a record of time that's passed.
Cities have always given me a bit of anxiety of being too hectic.
Natural elements make me feel
at peace with life itself.
I tend to go of an evening when I've got the beach to myself.
That thought that I'm walking where
human beings have walked for so long.
There's something about that timelessness I guess.
Things that allow you to
truly enjoy where you're at in that moment are quite special.
We live in a very high-consumption environment,
from fast fashion all the way to technology.
As a society we need to reflect on our behaviours.
Never feel powerless, feel powerful.
Even down to the choices that you make
in terms of the clothing that you wear,
and the food that you eat, where it's sourced from.
It's just a case of pausing and reflecting.
What am I doing every day
that benefits the natural environment for the future?