"... Owing to the very minute proportion in which gold is often associated with rocks and mineral substances, it does …"

"The earth on which we live has too great an influence on ourselves, directly and indirectly, to justify ignorance on …"

"Nature offers many of her books for our study; for every department of knowledge, large or small, may be looked on as…"

"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…"