Watership Down

by Richard Adams

I’d rather succeed in doing what we can than fail to do what we can’t.”

burrow, however, things happened differently. The rabbits mingled naturally. They did not talk

What is now proved was once only imagin’d. William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

We do not take moonlight for granted. It is like snow, or like the dew on a July morning. It does not reveal but changes what it covers. And its low intensity—so much lower than that of daylight—makes us conscious that it is something added to the down, to give it, for only a little time, a singular and marvelous quality that we should admire while we can, for soon it will be gone again.

We must do the best we can with what we’ve got.”

You k’n hide de fier, but w’at you gwine do wid de smoke? Joel Chandler

Be not merciful unto them that offend of malicious wickedness. They grin like a dog and run about through the city.

Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.