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"For a long time, I too thought that Europe’s Muslims would become like previous waves of migrants, gradually abandoni…"

"The question now is whether the price of his misjudgement is to be paid only by the man himself, or whether those who…"

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"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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"If I do decide one day to stop acting, I just hate the idea of people going: 'Oh, did you ever do anything else besid…"