Animals Quote by Richard Adams

Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals.

— Richard Adams

“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

“Rabbit underground, rabbit safe and sound.”

— Richard Adams

“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

“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

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

“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

“Most of them had not understood Blackberry's discovery of the raft and at once forgot it.”

— Richard Adams

“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

“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

Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.

— Richard Adams

Who knows why men do anything?

— Richard Adams