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.

I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.

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

With opportunity the world is very interesting.

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

Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.

So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.