Beatrix Potter
Beatrix Potter
Helen Beatrix Potterwas an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist best known for her children's books featuring animals, such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth28 July 1866
CityLondon, England
country children alive
It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born
adventure home world
We cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure.
writing firsts stories
There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.
inspirational life believe
All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
education learning school
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
garden names once-upon-a-time
Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were--Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
real childhood heaven
What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
opportunity interesting world
With opportunity the world is very interesting.
crowns happy-marriage old-fashioned
I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
hate book years
I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
children hands imagination
For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.
cat sunday two
Sunday, January 27, 1884. -- There was another story in the paper a week or so since. A gentleman had a favourite cat whom he taught to sit at the dinner table where it behaved very well. He was in the habit of putting any scraps he left onto the cat's plate. One day puss did not take his place punctually, but presently appeared with two mice, one of which it placed on its master's plate, the other on its own.
children growing-up flower
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.
personality generations influence
I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.