Richard Adams: Rabbit

Richard Adams was English novelist best known as the author of Watership Down. Explore interesting quotes on rabbit.

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“My Chief Rabbit has told me to stay and defend this run, and until he says otherwise, I shall stay here. --Bigwig”

Richard Adams book Watership Down

Source: Watership Down

“Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it. For them there is no winter food problem. They have fires and warm clothes. The winter cannot hurt them and therefore increases their sense of cleverness and security. For birds and animals, as for poor men, winter is another matter. Rabbits, like most wild animals, suffer hardship.”

Richard Adams book Watership Down

Watership Down (1972)

Hurt , Clothes , Food , Suffering

“Rabbit underground, rabbit safe and sound.”

Richard Adams book Watership Down

Watership Down

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

Richard Adams book Watership Down

Source: Watership Down

Death , Thinking

“For that matter, Odysseus himself might have borrowed a trick or two from the rabbit hero, for he is very old and was never at a loss for a trick to deceive his enemies.”

Richard Adams book Watership Down

Source: Watership Down

Loss