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Beatrix Potter Quotes about Children

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For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.

For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.

Beatrix Potter
Children, Hands, Imagination

I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense...

Beatrix Potter
Children, Real, Believe
Journal entry, from the National Trust collection, November 17, 1968.

The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself. I was a child then, I had no idea what the world would be like. I wished to trust myself on the waters and the sea. Everything was romantic in my imagination. The woods were peopled by the mysterious good folk. The Lords and Ladies of the last century walked with me along the overgrown paths, and picked the old fashioned flowers among the box and rose hedges of the garden.

Beatrix Potter
Children, Growing Up, Flower

It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born

Beatrix Potter
Country, Children, Alive
Beatrix Potter (1982). “Beatrix Potter's Americans: selected letters”

It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born. My brother and I were born in London...but our descent, our interest and our joy were in the north country'. Quoted in The Tale of Beatrix Potter a Biography by Margaret Lane, First Edition p 32-33

Beatrix Potter
Country, Brother, Children

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