Roger Deakin Quotes

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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.

Roger Deakin

I need someone to fold the sheet, someone to take the other end of the sheet and walk towards me and fold once, then step back, fold and walk towards me again.We all need someone to fold the sheet.Someone to hitch on the coat at the neck.Someone to put on the kettle. Someone to dry up while I wash.

Roger Deakin

To enter a wood is to pass into a different world in which we ourselves are transformed.

Roger Deakin

Roger Deakin

Roger Deakin

Born: February 11, 1943

Died: August 19, 2006 (aged 63)

Bio: Roger Stuart Deakin 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.

Known for:

Wildwood
Notes from Walnut Tree Farm
Swimming: Vintage Minis

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