"A gentil man, er he take a cooke in to his seruice, he wyll firste diligently examine hym, howe many sortes of meates…"

"Lorde god, howe many good and clene wittes of children be nowe a dayes perisshed by ignorant schole maisters. Howe li…"

"In euery daunse, of a moste auncient custome, there daunseth to gether a man and a woman, holding eche other, by the …"

"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…"

"Many argue that the is inhumane, that meat is expensive, that it contains uric acid, that it may be tubercular, and s…"