Roger Deakin
Born
in Watford, The United Kingdom
February 11, 1943
Died
August 19, 2006
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Waterlog: A Swimmer's Journey Through Britain
21 editions
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1999
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Wildwood: A Journey through Trees
9 editions
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published
2007
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Notes From Walnut Tree Farm
6 editions
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published
2008
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Swimming: Vintage Minis
4 editions
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published
2017
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Wildwood: À travers les forêts du monde
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À la nage. Journal d'une aventure en eaux libres
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“All of us , I believe , carry about in our heads places and landscapes we shall never forget because we have experienced such intensity of life there :places where, like the child that 'feels its life in every limb' in Wordsworth's poem'We are seven' ,our eyes have opened wider, and all our senses have somehow heightened.By way of returning the compliment , we accord these places that have given us such joy a special place in our memories and imaginations. They live on in us, wherever we may be, however far from them.”
― Notes From Walnut Tree Farm
― Notes From Walnut Tree Farm
“To enter a wood is to pass into a different world in which we ourselves are transformed.”
― Wildwood: A Journey through Trees
― Wildwood: A Journey through Trees
“There's more truth about a camp than a house. Planning laws need not worry the improvising builder because temporary structures are more beautiful anyway, and you don't need permission for them. There's more truth about a camp because that is the position we are in. The house represents what we ourselves would like to be on earth: permanent, rooted, here for eternity. But a camp represents the true reality of things: we're just passing through.”
― Wildwood: A Journey through Trees
― Wildwood: A Journey through Trees
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