When the man was disgraced and told to go away, he was allowed to ask all the animals whether any of them would come with him and share his fortunes and his life. There were only two who agreed to com...
The full moon, well risen in a cloudless eastern sky, covered the high solitude with its light. We are not conscious of daylight as that which displaces darkness. Daylight, even when the sun is clear...
Rabbits (says Mr. Lockley) are like human beings in many ways. One of these is certainly their staunch ability to withstand disaster and to let the stream of their life carry them along, past reaches...
I don't like straight lines: men make them.
This was their way of honoring the dead. The story over, the demands of their own hard, rough lives began to re-assert themselves in their hearts, in their nerves, their blood and appetites. Would tha...
A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel.
I dislike this whole business of experimentation on animals, unless there's some very good and altogether exceptional reason to this very case. The thing that gets me is that it's not possible for the...
They're all so much afraid of the Council that they're not afraid of anything else.
A magpie, seeing some light-colored object conspicuous on the empty slope, flew closer to look. but all that lay there was a splintered peg and a twisted length of wire.
The primroses were over.
You're trying to eat grass that isn't there. Why don't you give it a chance to grow?
Human beings say, It never rains but it pours. This is not very apt, for it frequently does rain without pouring. The rabbits' proverb is better expressed. They say, One cloud feels lonely: and indeed...
Lots of little Bigwigs, Hazel! Think of that, and tremble!
Rabbits need dignity and, above all, the will to accept their fate.
I am sorry for you with all my heart. But you cannot blame us, for you came to kill us if you could.
They want to be natural, the anti-social little beasts. They just don't realize that everyone's good depends on everyone's cooperation.
My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.
The rabbits mingled naturally. They did not talk for talking's sake, in the artificial manner that human beings - and sometimes even their dogs and cats - do. But this did not mean that they were not...
Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything else.
Although leaves remained on the beeches and the sunshine was warm, there was a sense of growing emptiness over the wide space of the down. The flowers were sparser. Here and there a yellow tormentil s...
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