"For me, the edges of a picture are the most important areas. I like to think of the image as a small segment of a muc…"

"I’m not free to do whatever I like stylistically, since my work is going to be wedded to the words. The responsibilit…"

"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…"

"In general appearance the is an extremely large and powerful fellow, with a beautiful head and speaking countenance, …"

"Very few of the old s interfere with the duties of their assistants, but there be men who seem to think you have mere…"

"Three days at , and up anchor again; our next place of call being . Every one has heard of the , who tried to beat th…"