Richard Adams

Our children's children will hear a good story.

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

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

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

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.

Rabbits need dignity and above all the will to accept their fate.

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

You're trying to eat grass that isn't there. Why don't you give it a chance to grow?

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

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

A thing can be true and still be desperate folly.

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