“Such, such were the joys When we all, girls and boys, In our youth time were seen On the Echoing Green.” HappinessJoyGirlBoysYouthGreenBoy And Girl Book:Collected Poems Source: Collected Poems
“Ask any school-boy up to the age of fifteen where he would spend his holidays. Not one in five hundred will say, "In the streets of London," if you give him the option of green fields and running waters. It is, then, a fair presumption that there must be something of the child still in the character of the men or the women whom the country charms in maturer as in dawning life.” IfsMenGivingChildrenStillsCountryCharacterRunningAgeSchoolAsksWaterBoysFiveStreetsFieldsHe ManHundredFairsGreenLondonCharmHolidayFifteenPresumptionRunning WaterGreen Fields Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“Boys like romantic [fairy] tales; but babies like realistic tales - because they find them romantic...This proves that even nursery tales only echo an almost prenatal leap of interest and amazement. These tales say that apples were golden only to refresh the forgotten moment when we found that they were green. They make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.” MomentsRunningRememberFoundInterestWaterBoysBabyProveRiversGreenWineForgottenTalesGoldenApplesFairyLeapRealisticFairy TaleEchoesNurseryAmazement Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton