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
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.
opportunity interesting world
With opportunity the world is very interesting.
real childhood heaven
What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
garden names once-upon-a-time
Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were--Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
education learning school
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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.
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.