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.

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

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

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.

A thing can be true and still be desperate folly.

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.