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.

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.

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.

Who knows why men do anything?

Sooner or later, everyone has to meet his match.

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.