"In offering to the public a book on Humanity to Animals, I am sensible that I lay myself open to no small portion of …"

"Every single act of cruelty contributes something towards generating in the mind an habit of cruelty."

"[I]t is our duty to cultivate humanity towards animals […] not content merely to rescue animals from pain but to leav…"

"Animals are endued with a capability of perceiving pleasure and pain; and from the abundant provision which we percei…"

"A man who has made a tolerable progress in humanity, will adopt, and ever bear in mind, the principle of increasing, …"

"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…"