I remember the book with a rabbit on the cover on my dad's shelf when I was a kid, Richard Adams' Watership Down. But it was long. It still is. But I don't really remember it ever being recommended to me. Now it was. A very nice book, very definitely about rabbits.
A couples of highlights... one bit of wisdom and one bit of beautiful insight.
"A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel." (pg 138)
"We do not usually envisage the downs without daylight, even though the light is not a part of the down itself as the hide is part of the horse itself. We take daylight for granted. But moonlight is another matter. It is inconstant. The full moon wanes and returns again. Clouds may obscure it to an extent to which they cannot obscure daylight. Water is necessary to us, but a waterfall is not. Where it is to be found is ti something extra, a beautiful ornament. We need daylight and to that extent it is utilitarian, but moonlight we do not need. When it comes, it serves no necessity. It transforms." (pg 215)
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