Innocent

Sweet childish days, that were as long As twenty days are now. ~William Wordsworth,  There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again.  ~Elizabeth Lawrence~  Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights,  before the dark hour of reason grows.  ~John Betjeman, Summoned by Bells  Childhood:  the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and  the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.  ~Ambrose Bierce~  We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.  ~George Eliot~ Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.  ~Katherine Anne Porter~