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

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.

One cloud feels lonely.

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but i feel more lonely in a crowded room with boring people then i feel on my owm.

The body is the easiest thing to adjust to... It’s the life, the context of the body, that can be hard to grasp.

Women deserve the same permanent rights and explicit protections given men in the Constitution.

I want to raise a family and have a couple of small Dirks running around. But it will not be easy to win my heart.

In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous.

Until as women we all say, No! We are not going to starve ourselves, nothing is going to change. We're our own worse enemies sometimes but I still blame men.

I love the French for their sarcasm, their irony. I love them for their bad moods.

Real peace is not in power, money, or weapons, but in deep inner peace.

My dear, life rarely gives us what we want at the moment we consider appropriate. Adventures do occur, but not punctually.

What All The World Knows Water is the principle, or the element, of things. All things are water.