Richard Adams

My heart has joined the thousand, for my friend stopped running today. ↗

— Richard Adams

#heart #joined #my friend #running #stopped

He fought because he actually felt safer fighting than running. ↗

— Richard Adams

#psychology

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

— Richard Adams

#beings #enjoy #feeling #human #human beings

Lots of little Bigwigs, Hazel! Think of that, and tremble! ↗

— Richard Adams

#humor

whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you ↗

— Richard Adams

#inspirational

They want to be natural, the anti-social little beasts. They just don't realize that everyone's good depends on everyone's cooperation. ↗

— Richard Adams

#nature

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

— Richard Adams

#death

Would that the dead were not dead! But there is grass that must be eaten, pellets that must be chewed, hraka that must be passed, holes that must be dug, sleep that must be slept. ↗

— Richard Adams

#death

A magpie, seeing some light-colored object conspicuous on the empty slope, flew closer to look. but all that lay there was a splintered peg and a twisted length of wire. ↗

— Richard Adams

#near-death #snare #death

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal. ↗

— Richard Adams

#destruction #dies #his #ideas #immortal