"The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies, but grows to the enduring happiness that the love of garde…"

"I am strongly of the opinion that possession of plants, however good, does not make a garden; it only makes a collect…"

"The duty we owe to our gardens is to so use the plants that they shall form beautiful pictures; and that, while delig…"

"To devise these living pictures with simple well-known flowers seems to me to be the best thing to do in gardening."

""Die Liebe zum Garten ist ein Same, der, einmal gesäet, nie wieder stirbt, sondern weiter und weiter wächst"

"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…"