"I grew up a somewhere. Now I am an anywhere. Sometimes that disconnect gives me a rootless feeling: an odd vertigo I …"

"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."

"A woman is never just one thing. She is strength and grace, fire and kindness, a dreamer and a fighter. Today, we cel…"

"I think that was enough time for us to learn the playing style that he wants us to play. I think we are all on the sa…"

"Gutted, heartbroken, disappointed and confused but as the saying goes, everything happens for a reason and I have fai…"