"If you ever think I am over-exuberant, too unconventional, too outspoken, remember that life has not blunted me nor m…"

"I have always had the joy of life, uncrushably, a sort of inner sunshine that cannot be put out."

"I have met [a proselytizer from a religious group]. I did not like him. He seemed to me to be a snob. He spoke of God…"

"Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea, And love is a thing that can never go wrong And I am …"

"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…"

"Besides the darkness of the night, many minor shadows cross our paths, making the hues of Life obscure. These are not…"