"I had the endurance but not the brute strength that must be coupled with it. No woman has this combination. That's wh…"

"There are two kinds of bathing suits, those that are adapted for use in the water, and those that are unfit for use e…"

"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…"

"I was actually very calm and just focused on what I had to do and how I had to execute the race, so I think that was …"

"Sometimes there are setbacks, and you just have to sit back and see what needs to be done to ensure you get where you…"

"I really am living my dream at the moment, and am just keeping focused on enjoying the journey and taking it one mome…"