"My training was basically as an ecologist—for is largely applied ecology—and, since serving in Ghana for 14 years in …"

"Some animals lend themselves to use in idioms—the goose is a good example of this. As long ago as 1547 a simpleton wa…"

"When Attenborough joined the , in 1952, what were then called “animal programs” were presented by the superintendent …"

"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…"