"Some philosophers – I am again thinking particularly of Martin Hollis – have objected that it will only be rational t…"

"Will books, as we know them, come to an end? Yes, absolutely, within 25 years the digital revolution will bring about…"

"We like to think we're free in the ; that we're beyond the forces of advertising and social manipulation by market fo…"

"Communal living: Plato recommended it, 19th-century religious separatists tried it, anarchists and hippies spectacula…"

"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…"

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