Richard Adams: Frasi in inglese

“My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.”

Richard Adams libro La collina dei conigli

“He fought because he actually felt safer fighting than running.”

Richard Adams libro La collina dei conigli

“My Chief Rabbit has told me to stay and defend this run, and until he says otherwise, I shall stay here. --Bigwig”

Richard Adams libro La collina dei conigli

“There is nothing that cuts you down to size like coming to some strange and marvelous place where no one even stops to notice that you stare about you.”

Richard Adams libro La collina dei conigli

“Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it. For them there is no winter food problem. They have fires and warm clothes. The winter cannot hurt them and therefore increases their sense of cleverness and security. For birds and animals, as for poor men, winter is another matter. Rabbits, like most wild animals, suffer hardship.”

Richard Adams libro La collina dei conigli

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

Richard Adams libro La collina dei conigli

“A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel.”

Richard Adams libro La collina dei conigli

“Lots of little Bigwigs, Hazel! Think of that, and tremble!”

Richard Adams libro La collina dei conigli

“We all have to meet our match sometime or other.”

Richard Adams libro La collina dei conigli

“Rabbit underground, rabbit safe and sound.”

Richard Adams libro La collina dei conigli

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

Richard Adams libro La collina dei conigli

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

Richard Adams libro La collina dei conigli

“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 libro La collina dei conigli

“That wasn't why they destroyed the warren. It was just because we were in their way. They killed us to suit themselves.”

Richard Adams libro La collina dei conigli

“I am sorry for you with all my heart. But you cannot blame us, for you came to kill us if you could.”

Richard Adams libro La collina dei conigli

“I've always said that Watership Down is not a book for children. I say: it's a book, and anyone who wants to read it can read it.”

Richard Adams

“Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed.”

Richard Adams libro La collina dei conigli

“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 libro La collina dei conigli

“For that matter, Odysseus himself might have borrowed a trick or two from the rabbit hero, for he is very old and was never at a loss for a trick to deceive his enemies.”

Richard Adams libro La collina dei conigli