WE talk about preserving the English countryside, yet I am seeing more and more acreage given over to miles of huge plastic tunnels and plastic ground cover to grow out-of-season produce, therefore, what a horror to view those domes (from the Eden Project) on the front cover of the Malvern Gazette.

The sadness of it all is that in all the cleverness of the mind we forget the one most essential to us all - our planet! Why do we seek to create domes at all or Eden Projects that cost millions. We have an Eden, which is our planet already there as a gift from God. Why can't we be content with the great dome of our heavens in her right seasonal blueprint?

Then I see in the letters that our councillors are thinking to spend some £6 million on yet another new building. We have become a nation of selfish go-getters and forget that which is more important to us than any science, technology or Government building scheme, our planet.

In nature, when a species becomes too big or too much for its environs something happens to it to keep its balance within the whole. Maybe we humans need to think on this instead of more and more science, technology and expansion across the garden of our earth, for she will take care of her own balances. Why have we forgotten already the Millennium cry for nature and more temperance in our use and abuse of this our planet home. We don't need more wars to wipe out numbers, but a better control through self-respect for the sheer volume of ourselves.

It is said that God's heart is in the garden, therefore, why do we seek to keep on changing that heart instead of appreciating what we have as a gift? To improve things is one thing but we need to question very carefully the ethics of the situation in interfering in atom and cell structures going on in GM manipulations and in the spread of technology as a whole. We are not controllers of our planet, we are guests here to learn.

M BROWN, Wells Road, Malvern.