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Mind your language

From milk to prayer: the curious connections of ‘pasture’

9 May 2020

9:00 AM

9 May 2020

9:00 AM

‘We can now see the sunlight and the pasture ahead of us,’ said Boris Johnson on our escape from a tunnel under an Alpine peak. One could almost hear the cowbells and the echo of a yodel.

From schooldays the Prime Minister will remember in chapel the Psalm ‘The Lord is my shepherd’, which declares: ‘He shall feed me in a green pasture.’

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