Tales from Watership Down

by Richard Adams

“It is entirely by human beings that every one of my subjects has been destroyed,” the King told him, as they stopped to admire and talk to a splendid grizzly bear, whose coat of light-brown fur was tipped with silver. “Some, like my Mexican friend here, the men quite deliberately shot, trapped and poisoned out of existence; but many others vanished because men destroyed their natural habitats and they couldn’t adapt themselves to live elsewhere.”

“But the human beings killed us all,”

Let his people become the humans’ worst enemy, as the humans are ours.”