"I loathe that I did love, In youth that I thought sweet; As time requires, for my behove, Methinks they are not meet.…"

"The harbinger of death, To me I see him ride; The cough, the cold, the gasping breath Doth bid me to provideA pickaxe…"

"Our wealth leaves us at death, our kinsmen at the grave; But virtue of the mind unto the heavens with us we have."

"Is this a life? Nay, death you may it call, That feels each pain and knows no joy at all."

"Thou that didst grant the wise king his request, Thou that in whale thy prophet didst preserve, Thou that forgav'st t…"

"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…"