Roger Deakin Quotes

I want my writing to bring people not just to think of "trees" as they mostly do now, but of each individual tree, and each kind of tree.

I want my writing to bring people not just to think of "trees" as they mostly do now, but of each individual tree, and each kind of tree.

Roger Deakin

Tags: ambition, observe, see, tree, writing

To enter a wood is to pass into a different world in which we ourselves are transformed. It is no accident that in the comedies of Shakespeare, people go into the greenwood to grow, learn and change....

Roger Deakin

To enter a wood is to pass into a different world in which we ourselves are transformed. It is no accident that in the comedies of Shakespeare, people go into the greenwood to grow, learn and change....

Roger Deakin

About Author

Roger Stuart Deakin (11 February 1943 – 19 August 2006) was an English writer, documentary-maker and environmentalist. He was a co-founder and trustee of Common Ground, the arts, culture and environment organisation. Waterlog, the only book he published in his lifetime, topped the UK best seller charts, and founded the wild swimming movement.
Patrick Barkham published a biography of Deakin in 2023 titled simply The Swimmer.