Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything else..

If you want to bless me you can bless my bottom, for it is sticking out of the hole..

How do they find out with the experiments?''...one way they can find out a whole lot is to make an animal ill and then try different ways to make it ….

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 th….

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 v….

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….

They're all so much afraid of the Council that they're not afraid of anything else..

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 ….

Dangerous thing, a name. Someone might catch hold of you by it, mightn't they?.

A thing can be true and still be desperate folly..

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 ….

Our children's children will hear a good story..

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….

Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals..

The Threarah doesn't like anything he hasn't thought of for himself..

We all have to meet our match sometime or other..

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….

Rabbits need dignity and above all the will to accept their fate..

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..

Who knows why men do anything?.