“What is this stuff, do you know?” he asked. “No, I don’t,” said Hazel. “I’ve never seen it before.” “There’s a lot we don’t know,” said Blackberry. “About this place, I mean. The plants are new, the smells are new.… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
“I should hurry, then, if I were you,” said Blackberry. “The sun will be down soon.” “Hah!” said Bigwig. “If I meet a stoat, it’d better look out, that’s all. I’ll bring you one back tomorrow, shall I?” — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals. — Richard Adams Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“Most of them had not understood Blackberry's discovery of the raft and at once forgot it.” — Richard Adams Copy Share
“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
“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
“A wild animal that feels that it no longer has any reason to live reaches in the end a point when its remaining energies… — Richard Adams Copy Share
“Think yourself lucky,” said Bigwig, bleeding and cursing, “that I don’t kill you.” — Richard Adams Copy Share
“Black Rabbit: Hazel... Hazel... you know me, don't you? Hazel: I don't know. [the apparition reveals himself to be the Black Rabbit, and Hazel… — Richard Adams Copy Share
