Secrets go faster than moles underground.
“
| — | Richard Adams, Watership Down |
Animals don’t behave like men. If they have to fight, they fight; and if they have to kill, they kill. But they don’t sid down and set their wits to work to devise ways of spoiling other creatures’ lives and hurting them. They have dignity and animality.
“
| — | Richard Adams, Watership Down |
We’re living off the overcapacity of our forefathers.
“
| — |
Jerry Del Tufo Alan Weisman, The World Without Us |
The ecosystem here will be a human artifact that will persist in our absence, a cosmopolitan botanical mixture that would never have occurred without us.
“
| — | Alan Weisman, The World Without Us |
No human beings, except the courageous and experienced blind, are able to sense much in a strange place where they cannot see…
“
| — | Richard Adams, Watership Down |
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?
“
| — | Richard Adams, Watership Down |
.. the world preferred to forget that men who knew how to heal also knew how to kill.
“
| — | George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings |
To come to the end of a time of anxiety and fear! To feel the cloud that hung over us life and disperse- the cloud that dulled the heart and made happiness no more than a memory! This is at least one joy that must have been known by almost every living creature.
“
| — | Richard Adams, Watership Down |
Creatures that have neither class nor books are alive to all manner of knowledge about time and the weather; and about direction, too, as we know from their extraordinary migratory and homing journeys.
“
| — | Richard Adams, Watership Down |
Rabbits, of course, have no idea of precise time or of punctuality. In this respect they are much the same as primitive people, who often take several days over assembling for some purpose and then several more to get started. 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.
“
| — | Richard Adams, Watership Down |
Interesting things did seem to happen, but always to somebody else.
“
| — | Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle |
