"On the most usual assumption, the universe is homogeneous on the large scale, i. e. down to regions containing each a…"

"The kind of lecture which I have been so kindly invited to give, and which now appears in book form, gives one a rare…"

"All science is full of statements where you put the best face on your ignorance, where you say: true enough, we know …"

"The landscape has been so totally changed, the ways of thinking have been so deeply affected, that it is very hard to…"

"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…"

"Der lange Marsch durch die Institutionen."