Quotes by Richard Adams

About Richard Adams:

Richard George Adams is an English novelist who is known as the author of Watership Down. He studied modern history at university before serving in the British Army during World War II. Afterward he completed his studies and then joined the British Civil Service. In 1974, two years after Watership Down was published, Adams became a full-time author. He is now semi-retired.
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At that instant a dazzling claw of lightning streaked down the length of the sky. The hedge and the distant trees seemed to leap forward in the brilliance of the flash. Immediately upon it came the thunder: a high, tearing noise, as though some huge ...

Richard Adams

Human beings say, "It never rains but it pours." This is not very apt, for it frequently does rain without pouring. The rabbits' proverb is better expressed. They say, "One cloud feels lonely": and indeed it is true that the sky will soon be overcast...

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Hazel, like nearly all wild animals, was unaccustomed to look up at the sky. What he thought of as the sky was the horizon, usually broken by trees and hedges.

Richard Adams

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

A foraging wild creature, intent above all upon survival, is as strong as the grass.

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

Richard Adams

Our children's children will hear a good story.

Richard Adams

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.

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

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

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Author Bio

  • NameRichard Adams
  • DescriptionEnglish novelist best known as the author of Watership Down
  • BornMay 9, 1920
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist
  • WorksWatership Down
  • AwardsCarnegie Medal