"Viewed from a distance, the natural world often presents a vista of sublime, majestic placidity. Yet beneath the foli…"

"Suppose that we could arrange the gradual extinction of carnivorous species, replacing them with new herbivorous ones…"

"[I]f suffering is bad for animals when we cause it, it is also bad for them when other animals cause it. That sufferi…"

"It seems, moreover, that my argument has some relevance to choices we must make even now. There are some species of l…"

"[T]he claim that suffering is bad for those who experience it and thus ought in general to be prevented when possible…"

"[I]t is clear you have either never taken a course in ecology and evolution, or forgot the message. There is this str…"

"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…"