"This is not the age of pamphleteers. It is the age of the engineers. The spark-gap is mightier than the pen. Democrac…"

"‘The change did not come about without obstruction from the representatives of custom thought. An edict of A.D. 1259 …"

"All the algorithms for fractions now used were invented by the Hindus. The Greek treatment of fractions never advance…"

"The difficulty of understanding why it should have been the Hindus who took this step, why it was not taken by the ma…"

"Άγιος που δε θαυματουργεί, μηδέ δοξολογιέται."

"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…"