“But I have learned that with creatures one loves, suffering is not the only thing for which one may pity them. A… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
“A wild animal that feels that it no longer has any reason to live reaches in the end a point when its… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
“Rabbits (says Mr. Lockley) are like human beings in many ways. One of these is certainly their staunch ability to withstand disaster… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
“Animals don't behave like men,' he said. 'If they have to fight, they fight; and if they have to kill they kill.… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
“A foraging wild creature, intent above all upon survival, is as strong as the grass.” — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
“Love the animals. God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Don’t trouble it, don’t harass them, don’t deprive… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
“Before such people can act together, a kind of telepathic feeling has to flow through them and ripen to the point when… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
“I think we ought to do all we can to make these creatures friendly. It might turn out to be well worth… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
“I dislike this whole business of experimentation on animals, unless there's some very good and altogether exceptional reason to this very case.… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals. — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
“Like children in a dark room, like wayfarers passing a graveyard at night, the four men in the canoe filled the surrounding darkness with… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
“There's terrible evil in the world." It comes from men," said Holly. "All other elil do what they have to do and Frith moves… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
“But I have learned that with creatures one loves, suffering is not the only thing for which one may pity them. A rabbit who… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
People who record birdsong generally do it very early-before six o'clock-if they can. Soon after that, the invasion of distant noise in most woodland… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
“Then El-ahrairah knew that Frith was too clever for him and he was frightened. He thought that the fox and the weasel were coming… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
“Most of them had not understood Blackberry's discovery of the raft and at once forgot it.” — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
“My lord,' replied El-ahrairah, 'I have come to give you my life. My life for my people.' The Black Rabbit drew his claws along… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
“Hazel, like nearly all wild animals, was unaccustomed to look up at the sky. What he thought of as the sky was the horizon,… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed. — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
