How we cite our quotes: (Book Title.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
"How do you do Nothing?" asked Pooh, after he had wondered for a long time.
"Well, it's when people call out at you just as you're going off to do it, What are you going to do, Christopher Robin, and you say, Oh, nothing, and then you go and do it." (House.10.32-33)
"Nothing" is Milne's view of early childhood in a nutshell.
Quote #11
So they went off together. But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the Forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing. (House.10.78)
For Milne, youth is almost a spiritual stage of life. Even as children grow older, their young selves can exist on some metaphysical plane in dreams or memory or nostalgia. We wonder if this is comforting for him, a burgeoning empty-nester as his son outgrows the fantasy world of the Forest.