If a rabbit gave advice and the advice wasn't accepted, he immediately forgot it, and so did everyone else.

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'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.

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.

If a rabbit gave advice and the advice wasn't accepted, he immediately forgot it, and so did everyone else.

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.

If you want to bless me you can bless my bottom, for it is sticking out of the hole.