What we call the highest and the lowest in nature are both equally perfect. A willow bush is as beautiful as the human form divine.
BEATRIX POTTERIt sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born..
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense…
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I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.
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Once upon a time there were three kittens, and their names were Mitten, Tom Kitten, and Moppet. They had dear little fur coats of their own; and they tumbled about the doorstep and played in the dust.
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It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born..
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There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they’ll take you.
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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.
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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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.
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Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.
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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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