"In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs. Not the …"

"The love of experiment was very strong in him, and I can remember the way he would say, "I shan't be easy till I have…"

"For books he had no respect, but merely considered them as tools to be worked with. Thus he did not bind them, and ev…"

"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…"