Richard Adams Quotes

I certainly think that 10 to 20 years from now, clearly the majority of veterinarians will be women.

We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be.

There is nothing that cuts you down to size like coming to some strange and marvelous place where no one even stops to notice that you stare about you.

You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple.

We all have to meet our match sometime or other.

A thing can be true and still be desperate folly.

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

I've always said that Watership Down is not a book for children. I say: it's a book, and anyone who wants to read it can read it.

If a rabbit gave advice and the advice wasn't accepted, he immediately forgot it, and so did everyone else.

Our children's children will hear a good story.

Rabbits need dignity and above all the will to accept their fate.

One cloud feels lonely.

They're all so much afraid of the Council that they're not afraid of anything else.

Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything else.

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

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 becomes too constant and too loud.

If you want to bless me you can bless my bottom, for it is sticking out of the hole.

Dangerous thing, a name. Someone might catch hold of you by it, mightn't they?

Sooner or later, everyone has to meet his match.

Who knows why men do anything?

The Threarah doesn't like anything he hasn't thought of for himself.

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

They want to be natural, the anti-social little beasts. They just don't realize that everyone's good depends on everyone's cooperation.

Hazel, like nearly all wild animals, was unaccustomed to look up at the sky. What he thought of as the sky was the horizon, usually broken by trees and hedges.

Bigwig: "I can't think why he didn't convince Threarah."Hazel: "Because Threarah doesn't like anything he hasn't thought of for himself.

I don't like straight lines: men make them.

Stubbs may have envisaged the skeleton inside the horse, but most of us do not

You're trying to eat grass that isn't there. Why don't you give it a chance to grow?

[One} who does not know when a gift has made him safe is poorer than a slug, even though he may think otherwise himself.

Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.

You know how you let yourself think that everything will be alright if you can only go to certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple.

You can't call your life your own: and in return you have safety, if it's worth having at the price you pay.

Would that the dead were not dead! But there is grass that must be eaten, pellets that must be chewed, hraka that must be passed, holes that must be dug, sleep that must be slept.

My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.

A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel.