Each planet, each plant, each butterfly, each moth, each beetle, becomes doubly real to you when you know its name. Lucky indeed are those who from their earliest childhood have heard all these things named.
Butterfly Quotes
No lepidopterist’s collection in the entire world – full of iridescent wings, is worth the life of a single butterfly.
Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave. The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him.
They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.
Stay near me – do not take thy flight! A little longer stay in sight! Much converse do I find in thee, Historian of my infancy! (To A Butterfly)
Heading into the future is a little like a caterpillar entering a cocoon. The caterpillar doesn’t know that he’ll come out a butterfly. All he knows is that he’s alone, it’s dark, and it’s a little scary.
Love is like a butterfly, it goes where it pleases and it pleases where it goes.
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
Here’s an example from A Butterfly; That on a rough, hard rock Happy can lie; Friendless and all alone On this unsweetened stone. Now let my bed be hard, No care take I; I’ll make my joy like this Small Butterfly; Whose happy heart has power To make a stone a flower.
Predictability: Does the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?
