Quotes from bookWatership Down
Watership Down is a survival and adventure novel by English author Richard Adams, published by Rex Collings Ltd of London in 1972. Set in southern England, around Hampshire, the story features a small group of rabbits. Although they live in their natural wild environment, with burrows, they are anthropomorphised, possessing their own culture, language, proverbs, poetry, and mythology. Evoking epic themes, the novel follows the rabbits as they escape the destruction of their warren and seek a place to establish a new home , encountering perils and temptations along the way.
“He fought because he actually felt safer fighting than running.”
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“My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.”
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“A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel.”
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“Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed.”
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“We all have to meet our match sometime or other.”
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“Lots of little Bigwigs, Hazel! Think of that, and tremble!”
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“Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals.”
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