"When young persons are summoned from this world ere they have mingled in its sinful pursuits, they can be readily yie…"

"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…"

"I can live as the boys live, and if God wishes the work to succeed, He will surely provide the means."

"In looking after the interests of the child it is necessary to cultivate the heart. You must eradicate the vices of y…"

"However great this addition to the number of facts serving to elucidate the natural history of these most interesting…"

"The apparent function of the Diatomacae in the economy nature, viz. to vivify, as it were, the immensity of the ocean…"