Sir Billy Connolly has opened up about his fears for the planet, worrying that we may not have taken good enough care of it over the years.
The comedian, 79, has spoken passionately about his love for nature which began as a child, in his new series for UKTV’s Gold.
Speaking in Billy Connolly Does…, he revealed: ‘Oh yeah. I love [nature]. I’ve loved it since I was a boy, since I was in the Cubs. I love it. The first time I saw a stickleback or a rabbit, it just changed my life.
‘When I was a kid we used to go camping at Aberfoyle. We would go up at night time and just with a sleeping bag and move the cows out of the road. Where the cow had been lying down, we would lie down. That was your electric blanket.
‘We would lie and just look at the sky at night. A wonderful thing happens. There’s a kind of star, people point it out to you, that you can only see on the periphery of your eye.
‘If you look over there you can see it here, but when you look it’s not there. It’s as if it’s hiding behind a star. I used to love stuff like that.’
The Big Yin, who now lives in the Florida Keys since returning from comedy after being diagnosed with Parkinson’s, admitted he fears for the future of the planet.
He explained: ‘I believe that the animals are our brothers and sisters and I don’t believe all this nonsense about soul separating us. I don’t believe in that kind of thinking.
‘We share the world with everybody and everybody has a function and when the function goes, we’re in trouble.
‘The world is an amazing place. There’s an immensity about the world. You’re not supposed to understand it. You’re supposed to be wowed by it. And I’ve been seriously wowed by it.’
Explaining how it changed his outlook on life, Billy added: ‘It’s given me the belief that the world is bigger than me.
‘You have to treat it with deep respect. It will bite you in the a**e and it’s proceeding to do that right now. The forests are all on fire and this virus careering through the planet. I hope we haven’t blown it.’
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