"There is real wisdom there about respecting the environment that more enlightened people, supposedly, have forgotten …"

"Eating a fish from a river used to be a birth right, but those days are long gone. Now it’s our duty to put them back."

"Fear has a useful function: it concentrates the mind. And the appropriate reaction is to work to understand the thing…"

"The thing about rivers, is if you work with them, if you give them a little bit of help, it’s surprising how much the…"

"You do get these similar stories everywhere. And I think part of that is because the underwater world is so unknown. …"

"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…"