Children Quote by Beatrix Potter

All children want to do is play in worlds they create and project on their external world. If allowed to do that, they are…

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

When kids play, they are working on imagining the kind of world we live in.

— Daniel Greenberg

The great subversive works of children's literature suggest that there are other views of human life besides those of the shopping mall and the…

— Alison Lurie

It can be demonstrated that the child's contact with the real world is strengthened by his periodic excursions into fantasy. It becomes easier to…

— Selma Fraiberg

Nature introduces children to the idea—to the knowing—that they are not alone in this world, and that realities and dimensions exist alongside their own.

— Richard Louv

In nature, a child finds freedom, fantasy, and privacy: a place distant from the adult world, a separate peace.

— Richard Louv

“Children, even when very young, have the capacity for inventive thought and decisive action. They have worthwhile ideas. They make perceptive connections. They’re individuals…

— Lori McWilliam Pickert

Because they have so little, children must rely on imagination rather than experience.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I am always fascinated by the way kids create their own world. That is something I am very attentive to anywhere I go.

— Francis Alys

Creativity and the world of the imagination - the beauty of what we see as a child and the kind of play that we…

— Diane Paulus

Might we not say that every child at play behaves like a creative writer, in that he creates a world of his own, or,…

— Sigmund Freud

“Raising our kids in this way-without television, video games, or even a lot of extra friends-I believe they have gained independence and the ability…

— Chris Nobel