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Roger Deakin
3 quotes
“The more I thought about it, the more obsessed I became with the idea of a swimming journey. I started to dream ever more exclusively of water. Swimming and dreaming were becoming indistinguishable. I grew convinced that following water, flowing with it, would be a way of getting under the skin of things, of learning something new.”
Roger Deakin (1943–2006) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
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“From water level, I observed the mating joined in flight like refuelling aircraft, and the random progress of the clocks that drifted on the s over the moat.”
Roger Deakin (1943–2006) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: as quoted by in: (quote from 1999 book Waterlog, published in the USA for the first time in 2021)
“It is through trees that we see and hear the wind: woodland people can tell the species of a tree from the sound it makes in the wind. If Waterlog was about the element of water, Wildwood is about the element of wood, as it exists in nature, in our souls, in our culture and in our lives. To enter a wood is to pass into a different world in which we ourselves are transformed. It is no accident that in the of Shakespeare, people go into the greenwood to grow, learn and change. It is where you travel to find yourself, often, paradoxically, by getting lost. sends the future as a boy into the greenwood to fend for himself in . There, he falls asleep and dreams himself, like a chameleon, into the lives of the animals and the trees.”
Roger Deakin (1943–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source