Roger Deakin Quotes

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

Roger Deakin

#2. I have always thought of the moths and butterflies as a bonus to the flowers, as though Nature were admiring her own work.

Roger Deakin

#3. When our brains constantly scan for and focus on the positive, we profit from three of the most important tools available to us: happiness, gratitude, and optimism.

Shawn Achor

#4. But I could not sleep without proper covering and spent the rest of the night rewriting lost arguments from my past, altering history so that I emerged victorious.

Patrick DeWitt

#5. I wanted to follow the rain on its meanderings about our land to rejoin the sea, to break out of the frustration of a lifetime doing lengths, of endlessly turning back on myself like a tiger pacing its cage

Roger Deakin

#6. I am a woodlander, I have sap in my veins,

Roger Deakin

#7. The red kind of symbolizes a lot of things I do in Africa, along with a lot of the work, like the red laces. Everybody that buys a pair can pretty much save a life in Africa.

Serena Williams

#8. that for understanding the spread of behaviors in social networks, we need to take into account not just the power of influential nodes but also the extent to which these influential nodes have access to easily influenceable people.

David Easley

#9. If you haven't read 'In The Morning I'll Be Gone', I reckon it's a pretty good place to start if you're new to me and my books.

Adrian McKinty

#10. Am I surprised that Joe Klein [pseudonymous author of Primary Colors which he denied writing] lied? No, because in my opinion reporters lie all the time.

James Carville

#11. We are perishing for want of wonder, not for want of wonders.

G.K. Chesterton

#12. At night you write out of guilt, but in the morning you write out of hope.

Roger Deakin

#13. Don't take voice lessons. Do it your way.

Johnny Cash

#14. My house was once an acorn.

Roger Deakin

#15. I know of nothing uglier or more saddening than a machine-flailed hedge. It speaks of the disdain of nature and craft that still dominates our agriculture.

Roger Deakin

#16. They never said it, Ramzan never thanked him for it, but they both knew that the week he spent treating the infection was just that. If a stranger were to put his ear in the space between them, he would hear the dull roar of that knowledge.

Anthony Marra

#17. We have yet to learn again the forgotten art of gayety.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#18. 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