175 Quotes by Richard Adams

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

Rabbits (says Mr. Lockley) are like human beings in many ways. One of these is certainly their staunch ability to withstand disaster and to let the stream of their life carry them along, past reaches of terror and loss. They have a certain quality which it would not be accurate to describe as callousness or indifference. It is, rather, a blessedly circumscribed imagination and an intuitive feeling that Life is Now.

Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals.

Who knows why men do anything?

If you want to bless me you can bless my bottom, for it is sticking out of the hole.

A thing can be true and still be desperate folly.

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.

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

I distinguish two types of human beings, Love people, who love the sky and the flowers, and Power People, who are essentially sold on naked power.