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.

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

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.

I certainly think that 10 to 20 years from now, clearly the majority of veterinarians will be women.

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.

Like the pain of a bad wound, the effect of a deep shock takes some while to be felt. When a child is told, for the first time in his life, that a person he has known is dead, although he does not disbelieve it, he may well fail to comprehend it and later ask--perhaps more than once--where the dead person is and when he is coming back.

One cloud feels lonely.