"I have very strongly this feeling... that our everyday life is at one and the same time banal, overfamiliar, platitud…"

"As Voltaire once remarked, "It is the privilege of the real genius, especially one who opens up a new path, to make g…"

"The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers. Ea…"

"Some of my readers may find themselves thinking that the mere fact that millions of human beings, including many high…"

"It could be that the total scenario for human beings is an insoluble mystery until we die, followed by nothing at all."

"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…"