Calming, thought-provoking, poetic and honest, Notes from Walnut
Tree Farm is a collection of writing and musing by
documentary-maker, environmentalist and author of Waterlog, Roger
Deakin. 'Gentle, straight, honest, inquisitive, funny, melancholic'
Spectator 'A lovely book that is a poignant epitaph to a remarkable
individual' Amazon Review ________________ For the last six years
of his life, Roger Deakinkept notebooks. In them, he wrote his
daily thoughts, impressions, feelings and observations about and
around his Suffolk home, Walnut Tree Farm. Collected here are the
very best of these writings, capturing his extraordinary, restless
curiosity about nature as well as his impressions of our changing
world. Perfect for fans of Robert Macfarlane and Colin Tudge, this
is a book that fills readers with a desire to explore the world
around them. ________________ 'A secular saint' The Times
'Marvellous, wonderful, lovely, remarkable . . . to be read and
reread and treasured' Elizabeth Jane Howard, Daily Mail 'Very
funny, sharp-eyed. To look at the world through Deakin's eyes was
to see somewhere that was more wonderful than it often appears'
Sunday Telegraph 'Thoughtful and invigorating, full of humour,
timeless . . . will take its place among the classics of Nature
diaries . . . to be read alongside Frances Kilvert, Gilbert White,
and Dorothy Wordsworth' Mail on Sunday 'So busy and bustling with
life' Observer
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