"Colour is of prime importance to life on earth: plants use it to attract s and to aid dispersal of their fruit; anima…"

"In addition to photographing flowers extensively on both sides the Atlantic, I have been fortunate to work in locatio…"

"From the discovery of , we know that the once existed over a much larger range extending into Burma and northern Viet…"

"As the sun dips towards the horizon, a huge white ice arch becomes suffused with a pink glow. In front of this amazin…"

"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…"