"The civilisation and social structure of our country, rightly or wrongly, take for granted that a few people shall ha…"

"They kept a bird— Poor bird !—in a cage ; Till—so I have heard— Without need, without rage, Cheerfully, coldly, They …"

"... , years before he died, was hidden from most of us in the mist of his own method."

"" Instinct," as said, " is a great matter "; but it is not the whole. believes so much in domination and antagonism t…"

"I was one of the first in this country—I rather think I was quite the first—to hail in print the genius of Mr. Joyce,…"

"Gerald Gould was important in George Orwell’s life although they may never have met. As Chief Reader for the publishe…"

"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…"