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.
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Richard Adams, Watership Down
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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.
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Richard Adams, Watership Down
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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.
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Richard Adams, Watership Down
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