Alighted near Hazel and Fiver. How’s Holly? asked Hazel. ’E sad, said Kehaar. ’E say you no come back. Then he added, Mees Clover, she ready for mudder. That’s good, said Hazel. Is anyone doing anythi...
Bluebell had been saying that he knew the men hated us for raiding their crops and gardens, and Toadflax answered, 'That wasn't why they destroyed the warren. It was just because we were in their way....
Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!
No, no- the sky will grow dark, cold rain will fall and all trace of the right way will be blotted out. You will be all alone. And still you will have to go on. There will be ghosts in the dark and vo...
He fought because he actually felt safer fighting than running.
Frith meant us to get back, replied Holly. That’s the real reason why we’re here.
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.
Why do the men come, do you suppose? Who knows why men do anything?
There is not a day or night but a doe offers her life for her kittens, or some honest captain of Owsla his life for his Chief Rabbit's. Sometimes it is taken, sometimes it is not. But there is no barg...
At that moment, in the sunset on Watership Down, there was offered to General Woundwort the opportunity to show whether he was really the leader of vision and genius which he believed himself to be, o...
A rabbit sneeze on the morning breeze sets homesick hearts aglow sitting with his rumps in a chicory clump and longing for a nice plump doe.
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.
Rabbit underground, rabbit safe and sound.
Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals.
Before such people can act together, a kind of telepathic feeling has to flow through them and ripen to the point when they all know that they are ready to begin. Anyone who has seen the martins and s...
All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warnin...
We go by the will of the black rabbit. when he calls you, you have to go
That wasn't why they destroyed the warren. It was just because we were in their way. They killed us to suit themselves.
My Chief Rabbit has told me to stay and defend this run, and until he says otherwise, I shall stay here. --Bigwig
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...