We go by the will of the black rabbit. when he calls you, you have to go
What is, is what must be.
We all have to meet our match sometime or other.
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...
Dangerous thing, a name. Someone might catch hold of you by it, mightn't they?
A foraging wild creature, intent above all upon survival, is as strong as the grass.
Underground, the story continued.
A wild animal that feels that it no longer has any reason to live reaches in the end a point when its remaining energies may actually be directed toward dying.
Who wants to hear about brave deeds when he’s ashamed of his own, and who likes an open, honest tale from someone he’s deceiving?
If you want to bless me you can bless my bottom, for it is sticking out of the hole.
Animals don't behave like men,' he said. 'If they have to fight, they fight; and if they have to kill they kill. But they don't sit down and set their wits to work to devise ways of spoiling other cre...
There's terrible evil in the world.It comes from men, said Holly. All other elil do what they have to do and Frith moves them as he moves us. They live on the earth and they need food. Men will never...
The rabbits became strange in many ways, different from other rabbits. They knew well enough what was happening. But even to themselves they pretended that all was well, for the food was good, they we...
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.
Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.
Like the pain of a bad wound, the effect of a deep shock takes some while to be felt. When a child is told, for the first time in his life, that a person he has known is dead, although he does not dis...
To come to the end of a time of anxiety and fear! To feel the cloud that hung over us lift and disperse—the cloud that dulled the heart and made happiness no more than a memory! This at least is one j...
Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed.
Captain, said Bluebell, do you know what the first blade of grass said to the second blade of grass? Hazel looked at him sharply, but Holly replied, Well? It said, ‘Look, there’s a rabbit! We’re in da...
With a kind of wry envy, Hazel realized that Bigwig was actually looking forward to meeting the Efrafan assault. He knew he could fight and he meant to show it. He was not thinking of anything else. T...
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