A thing can be true and still be desperate folly.

To come to the end of a time of anxiety and fear! To feel the cloud that hung over us lift and disperse - that cloud that dulled the heart and made happiness no more than a memory! This at least is one joy that must have been known by almost every living creature.

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

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

People who record birdsong generally do it very early-before six o'clock-if they can. Soon after that, the invasion of distant noise in most woodland becomes too constant and too loud.

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 the warren. It was just because we were in their way. They killed us to suit themselves.

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