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.

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

I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.

There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.

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

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.

I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.