"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…"

"If I thought my apprenticeship was over, I would be the first to be done for. It's a stimulus that you need all the t…"

"What pisses me off the most is that it seems like if I wear a miniskirt or a revealing dress – because maybe I like m…"

"You don't need to know if a relationship will work. It needs to start."

"I'm 40, not 20, when your hormones are going crazy, your head is full of dreams, and your future is in your hands. I'…"

"Interviewer: What memories do you have of your time at school as a pupil? Delogu: I felt like I was in a kind of tran…"