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Richard Adams Quotes

Richard Adams quotes

English Clergyman May 9, 1920

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A rabbit sneeze on the morning breeze sets homesick hearts aglow sitting with his rumps in a chicory clump and longing for a nice plump doe. Richard Adams
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. Richard Adams
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 rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals. Richard Adams
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 creatures' lives and hurting them. They have dignity and animality. Richard Adams
Like children in a dark room, like wayfarers passing a graveyard at night, the four men in the canoe filled the surrounding darkness with the fear from their own hearts. Richard Adams
Richard Adams quote: "Our children's children will hear a good story."
Our children's children will hear a good story. Richard Adams
I've always said that Watership Down is not a book for children. I say: it's a book, and anyone who wants to read it can read it. Richard Adams
Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything else. Richard Adams
This was their way of honoring the dead. The story over, the demands of their own hard, rough lives began to re-assert themselves in their hearts, in their nerves, their blood and appetites. Would that the dead were not dead! But there is grass that must be eaten, pellets that must be chewed, hraka that must be passed, holes that must be dug, sleep that must be slept. Odysseus brings not one man to shore with him. Yet he sleeps sound beside Calypso and when he wakes thinks only of Penelope. Richard Adams
Hazel, like nearly all wild animals, was unaccustomed to look up at the sky. What he thought of as the sky was the horizon, usually broken by trees and hedges. Richard Adams
Richard Adams quote: "I certainly think that 10 to 20 years from now, clearly the..."
I certainly think that 10 to 20 years from now, clearly the majority of veterinarians will be women. Richard Adams
Narrow lanes climb both slopes and come together in a great ring of elm trees which encircles the flat summit. Any wind--even the slightest--draws from the height of the elms a rushing sound, multifoliate and powerful. Richard Adams
Richard Adams quote: "I am sorry for you with all my heart. But you cannot blame us,..."
I am sorry for you with all my heart. But you cannot blame us, for you came to kill us if you could. Richard Adams
Richard Adams quote: "Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what..."
Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it. Richard Adams
Richard Adams quote: "to be dead may be nothing, yet who relishes the business of..."
...to be dead may be nothing, yet who relishes the business of dying? Richard Adams

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