Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything else.
Rabbit underground, rabbit safe and sound.
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...
We all have to meet our match sometime or other.
He fought because he actually felt safer fighting than running.
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....
What is, is what must be.
Why do the men come, do you suppose? Who knows why men do anything?
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...
Underground, the story continued.
Frith meant us to get back, replied Holly. That’s the real reason why we’re here.
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.
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.
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.
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...
Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals.
That wasn't why they destroyed the warren. It was just because we were in their way. They killed us to suit themselves.
If you want to bless me you can bless my bottom, for it is sticking out of the hole.
Dangerous thing, a name. Someone might catch hold of you by it, mightn't they?