Occupation: Novelist Birth: May 9, 1920 Death: December 27, 2016
The Threarah doesn't like anything he hasn't thought of for himself..
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 ….
They're all so much afraid of the Council that they're not afraid of anything else..
Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals..
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 pe….
Our children's children will hear a good story..
I distinguish two types of human beings, Love people, who love the sky and the flowers, and Power People, who are essentially sold on naked power..
All the world will be your enemy, Prince of a Thousand enemies. And when they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you; digger, l….
I have learned that with creatures one loves, suffering is not the only thing for which one may pity them. A rabbit who does not know when a gift has….
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 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 yo….
A thing can be true and still be desperate folly..
We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be..
We all have to meet our match sometime or other..
Who knows why men do anything?.
To come to the end of a time of anxiety and fear! To feel the cloud that hung over us lift and disperse - that cloud that dulled the heart and made h….
Dangerous thing, a name. Someone might catch hold of you by it, mightn't they?.
People who record birdsong generally do it very early-before six o'clock-if they can. Soon after that, the invasion of distant noise in most woodland….
Rabbits need dignity and above all the will to accept their fate..
Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed..
One cloud feels lonely..