"What humiliation, what disgrace for us all, that it should be necessary for one man to exhort other men not to be inh…"

"Among the reforms necessary for the triumph of true refinement and true morality, which ought to be our earnest aim, …"

"It has been well said … that there are steps on the way to the summit of Dietetic Reform, and, if only one step be ta…"

"[T]hroughout history there are records of individuals who have provided answers to these puerile attempts at defendin…"

"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…"