"I have learned that with creatures one loves,……" — Richard Adams
"I have learned that with creatures one loves, suffering is not the only thing for which one may pity them. A rabbit who does not know when a gift has made him safe is poorer than a slug, even though he may think otherwise himself."
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28 Quotes by Richard Adams
Richard Adams has 28 quotes on this site.
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All the world will be your enemy, Prince of a Thousand enemies. And when they catch you, they will kill…
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You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a…
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Like the pain of a bad wound, the effect of a deep shock takes some while to be felt. When…
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There is nothing that cuts you down to size like coming to some strange and marvelous place where no one…
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At that moment, in the sunset on Watership Down, there was offered to General Woundwort the opportunity to show whether…
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To come to the end of a time of anxiety and fear! To feel the cloud that hung over us…
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Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything…
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Sooner or later, everyone has to meet his match.
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We all have to meet our match sometime or other.
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I've always said that Watership Down is not a book for children. I say: it's a book, and anyone who…
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Bluebell had been saying that he knew the men hated us for raiding their crops and gardens, and Toadflax answered,…
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Dangerous thing, a name. Someone might catch hold of you by it, mightn't they?
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More Creatures Quotes
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I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.
— J. J. Abrams
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If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will…
— Francis of Assisi
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None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its…
— Mary Astell
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Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone…
— David Attenborough
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I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens,…
— David Attenborough
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Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural…
— David Attenborough
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Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom…
— Marcus Aurelius
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God's first creature, which was light.
— Francis Bacon
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As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
— Francis Bacon
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or…
— Abigail Adams
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To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
— Honore de Balzac
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