"Heaven &earth never agreed better to frame a place for man's habitation; were it fully manured and inhabited by indus…"

"You must obey this now for a Law, that he that will not work shall not eat (except by sickness he be disabled:) for t…"

"Nothing would be done for a plantation, till about some hundred of your Brownists of England, Amsterdam, and Leyden w…"

"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…"

"Besides the darkness of the night, many minor shadows cross our paths, making the hues of Life obscure. These are not…"

"Many argue that the is inhumane, that meat is expensive, that it contains uric acid, that it may be tubercular, and s…"