"In a sense, human flesh is made of stardust. Every atom in the human body, excluding only the primordial hydrogen ato…"

"One of my complaints is that you've got far more scientists than ever before but the pace of discovery has not increa…"

"That we shall probably never know the whole "truth" about the universe does not really matter very much; the fun come…"

"But, when tales of the cosmos are told, this period of ours may always be recalled as that in which men first came to…"

"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…"

"I never really had any aspirations to be an actor when I was young. I wanted to play the piano in a bar, to be the ol…"