We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be.

They're all so much afraid of the Council that they're not afraid of 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.

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.

We all have to meet our match sometime or other.

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.

Sooner or later, everyone has to meet his match.