"The big contemporary novel is a perpetual motion machine that appears to have been embarrassed into velocity. It seem…"

"An excess of storytelling has become the contemporary way of shrouding, in majesty, a lack; it is the Sun King princi…"

"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…"

"Tolkien has become a monster, devoured by his own popularity and absorbed into the absurdity of our time. The chasm b…"

"Der lange Marsch durch die Institutionen."

""Lest that by any means When I have preached to others I myself Should be a castaway." If some one now Would take tha…"