"Many dogs, cats and horses are loved and cherished, and are even mourned when they die. But pigs, chickens, calves an…"

"I was impressed by the way that Hindus relate to the land of India and the holy places, and was moved by the great va…"

"It's unnecessary to introduce magic into the explanation of physical and biological phenomena when in fact there is e…"

""Unser Geist projiziert in die Zukunft voraus durch unsere Absichten, die sich nicht nur räumlich, sondern auch zeitl…"

"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…"

"Tolkien has become a monster, devoured by his own popularity and absorbed into the absurdity of our time. The chasm b…"