A thing can be true and still be desperate folly.

A thing can be true and still be desperate folly.

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.

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

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 better until they find one that works.''But isn't that unkind to the animal?''Well, I suppose it is...but I mean, there isn't a dad anywhere who would hesitate, is there, if he knew it was going to make [his child] better? It's changed the whole world during the last hundred years, and that's no exaggeration.

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 made him safe is poorer than a slug, even though he may think otherwise himself.

Sooner or later, everyone has to meet his match.