"There is real wisdom there about respecting the environment that more enlightened people, supposedly, have forgotten …"

"Eating a fish from a river used to be a birth right, but those days are long gone. Now it’s our duty to put them back."

"The thing about rivers, is if you work with them, if you give them a little bit of help, it’s surprising how much the…"

"We live in the information age where in theory everybody knows anything. You ask somebody where your fish comes from,…"

"You do get these similar stories everywhere. And I think part of that is because the underwater world is so unknown. …"

"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…"