"To people who've been looked at and considered beautiful, particularly women who relied on it so much... age is quite…"

"All women are aware of that moment when suddenly the boys don't look at you. It's a fairly common thing, when suddenl…"

"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…"

"We must really give special attention to our women athletes, including our Para athletes. And not just the athletes a…"

"... Horticultural Show in the Temple Gardens. I go every year now, and should be sorry to miss it. How odd it seems, …"

"Many people would say, 'So strict a way of would make life unbearable,' but after a time this strictness so changes t…"