Our children's children will hear a good story.

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.

You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple.

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

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.

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.