Bambi, a Life in the Woods/Quotes

"Do you see how he's lying there dead, like one of us? Listen, Bambi. He [a human] isn't all-powerful as they say. Everything that lives and grows doesn't come from him. He isn't above us. He's just the same as we are. He has the same fears, the same needs, and suffers in the same way. He can be killed like us, and then he lies helpless on the ground like all the rest of us, as you see him now."
There was a silence.
"Do you understand me, Bambi?" asked the old stag.
"I think so." Bambi said in a whisper.
"Then speak." the old stag commanded.
Bambi was inspired and said trembling, "There is Another who is over us all, over us and over him."

—Bambi, a Life in the Woods

"The reader is made to feel deeply and thrillingly the terror and anguish of the hunted, the deceit and cruelty of the savage, the patience and devotion of the mother to her young, the fury of rivals in love, the grace and loneliness of the great princes of the forest. In word pictures that are sometimes breath-taking the author draws the forest in all its moods--lashed into madness by storms, or white and silent under snow, or whispering and singing to itself at daybreak."

—Louise Long, "Fanciful Allegory Delineates Wild Life in Austrian Forests" (Dallas Morning News, October 30, 1938)