"By its truth and absolute integrity — since Tolstoy I know of no writing so crystal clear — "Jean-Christophe" is the …"

"Bad art has always been used as an escape from life; good art admits of no escape and forces a man to see himself in …"

"I nothing know but that I nothing know, And therefore I sing merrily. I sit and watch the thronging moments go, Each …"

"In February 1911 Gilbert had joined the , proposed by , the playwright, and seconded by and Reginald Geard."

"A thing is no sooner out of fashion than it begins to appear antique; and the literary movements of the are already d…"

"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…"