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"The whole point I am making is that a hard, irreducible sense of our own self-awareness has been progressively denied…"

"An adolescent act of defiance has now become a familiar form of virtue. 'Going with the flow' has become an imperativ…"

"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…"

"Fairies are very shy creatures and prefer to keep themselves hidden from human eyes"

"If you look very carefully, you may see a fairy in your garden"