"Anyone looking quickly at a stuffed might think it was a , and this is hardly surprising. Except for its enormous bea…"

"More words have been written about the dodo than about any other extinct bird. Yet the truth is that almost nothing i…"

"Sometimes the of a species can be traced back to a single cause. More often there are a number of contributory factor…"

"The story of the reads like a work of fiction. At the start of the nineteenth century these birds existed in unimagin…"

"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…"

"Besides the darkness of the night, many minor shadows cross our paths, making the hues of Life obscure. These are not…"