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
lying flower eye
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.
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.
worn
I am worn to a raveling.
pudding obliged
I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
hands fire tea
Then Mrs. Tiggy-winkle made tea - a cup for herself and a cup for Lucie. They sat before the fire on a bench and looked sideways at one another. Mrs. Tiggy-winkle's hand, holding the tea-cup, was very very brown, and very very wrinkly with the soap-suds; and all through her gown and her cap, there were HAIRPINS sticking wrong end out; so that Lucie didn't like to sit too near her.
easter bunnies peter
Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail....
cat dust names
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.
mother taken tea
Peter was not very well during the evening. His mother put him to bed, and made some chamomile tea: "One table-spoonful to be taken at bedtime.
lost-ones shoes cabbage
Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
thinking matter prejudice
I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
perfection arguing
So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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
tails looks rabbits
This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.
homeschooling goodness neglected
Thank goodness my education was neglected.