Frases de Richard Adams

„El-ahrairah, tu pueblo no puede gobernar el mundo porque yo no lo he dispuesto así. Todo el mundo será tu enemigo, Príncipe con Mil Enemigos, y te matarán si te alcanzan. Pero antes tendrán que atraparte, a ti, que cavas y escuchas y corres, príncipe con la alarma presta. Sé astuto e ingenioso y tu pueblo nunca será destruido.“

—  Richard Adams

„Damos por sentada la luz del día. En cambio, la luz de la luna es otra cuestión. Es inconstante. La luna llena mengua y reaparece. Las nubes pueden oscurecerla hasta un punto que no pueden oscurecer la luz del día. El agua es necesaria para nosotros, pero una cascada no lo es. Y siempre que encontramos una cascada, no es sino algo superfluo, un bello ornamento. Necesitamos la luz del día, pero no la luz de la luna. Cuando llega, no cubre ninguna necesidad. Transforma. Cae sobre los márgenes y la hierba, separando una larga brizna de otra; convirtiendo un montón de hojas marrones y mates en innumerables y álgidos fragmentos; o iluminando las ramas húmedas como si la propia luz fuera dúctil. Sus largos rayos se derraman, blancos y afilados, entre los troncos de los árboles, y palidecen y retroceden al penetrar en la brumosa distancia de los bosques de hayas.“

—  Richard Adams, libro La colina de Watership

Watership Down

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

—  Richard Adams, libro La colina de Watership

Fuente: Watership Down

„You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple.“

—  Richard Adams, libro La colina de Watership

Fuente: Watership Down

„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 colina de Watership

Fuente: Watership Down

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

—  Richard Adams, libro La colina de Watership

Fuente: Watership Down

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

—  Richard Adams, libro La colina de Watership

Fuente: Watership Down

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

—  Richard Adams, libro La colina de Watership

Fuente: Watership Down

„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 colina de Watership

Fuente: Watership Down

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

—  Richard Adams, libro La colina de Watership

Fuente: Watership Down

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

—  Richard Adams, libro La colina de Watership

Fuente: Watership Down

„Rabbit underground, rabbit safe and sound.“

—  Richard Adams, libro La colina de Watership

Watership Down

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

—  Richard Adams, libro La colina de Watership

Fuente: Watership Down

„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 colina de Watership

Fuente: Watership Down

„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 colina de Watership

Fuente: Watership Down

„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 colina de Watership

Fuente: Watership Down

„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 colina de Watership

Fuente: Watership Down

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

—  Richard Adams, libro La colina de Watership

Fuente: Watership Down

„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