"Freedom of Speech, or the Liberty of the Press, (which is only a Conveyance of that Speech to Multitudes whom the Voi…"

"To the same Revolution We owe That Limited Form of Government which is our only Security; Those Parliaments, in which…"

"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."

"The poet of England, he gave to the love of country, to patriotism as nowadays we call it, a voice which never shall …"

"It is in Henry V. that Shakespeare fashioned for us the true epic of England. The dramatic form sits very loosely upo…"