"[T]he more efficient you get, the more inputs you attract. If you get really good at processing email, you’ll get mor…"

"A life spent chasing the mythical state of being able to do everything is less meaningful than a life of focusing on …"

"I think the reason that we seek distraction is that working on stuff that we care about is often scary. It brings us …"

"The more I thought about it, the more obsessed I became with the idea of a swimming journey. I started to dream ever …"

"From water level, I observed the mating joined in flight like refuelling aircraft, and the random progress of the clo…"

"It is through trees that we see and hear the wind: woodland people can tell the species of a tree from the sound it m…"

"Waterlog (1999), Roger's now-classic account of swimming through Britain, published twenty years ago this year, opens…"

"In 1973, Roger Deakin, a British writer and environmental activist, acquired a tumbledown sixteenth-century farmhouse…"

"Der lange Marsch durch die Institutionen."

"In the days of my early acquaintance with Henley, some fourteen or fifteen years ago, I could never look at him witho…"