Butterfly and Cocoons

Have you seen a butterfly emerge from a cocoon?

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Yellow and Black BUTTERFLY

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. ~Rabindranath Tagore






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Butterfly-Brown with Dots on Wings

This great purple butterfly,
In the prison of my hands,
Has a learning in his eye
Not a poor fool understands.
~William Butler Yeats, "Another Song of a Fool"

Beige and Gray BUTTERFLY

Butterflies are self propelled flowers. ~R.H. Heinlein





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White dotted BUTTERFLY

The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity. ~Attributed to George Carlin







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Glasswing Butterflies

Glasswing Butterflies are brush-footed butterflies with transparent wings. The tissues between the veins of their wings look like glass. They are found in Central America and Mexico.

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Pink Butterfly on a Pink Flower

Flowers and butterflies drift in color, illuminating spring. ~Author Unknown

Butterfly on Violets

Beautiful and graceful, varied and enchanting, small but approachable, butterflies lead you to the sunny side of life. And everyone deserves a little sunshine. ~Jeffrey Glassberg

White with Black Streaks Butterfly

The butterfly, a cabbage-white,
(His honest idiocy of flight)
Will never now, it is too late,
Master the art of flying straight.
~Robert Graves, "Flying Crooked"

Yellow Butterfly with Red Streaks on a Violet Flower

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. ~Maya Angelou

Black and Orange BUTTERFLY

Butterflies are self propelled flowers. ~R.H. Heinlein

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Cream and Black Butterfly on Violet Flower

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man. ~Chuang Tzu

Butterfly on Leaves

Know thyself! A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly. ~Andre Gide

Black-Orange Butterfly on a Sunflower

Where have those flowers and butterflies all gone
That science may have staked the future on?
He seems to say the reason why so much
Should come to nothing must be fairly faced.
~Robert Frost, "Pod of the Milkweed"

Dirty Whote Butterfly on a Old Pink Flowers

We are closer to the ants than to butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. ~Gerald Brenan

Orange Butterfly on Violets

The fluttering of a butterfly's wings can effect climate changes on the other side of the planet. ~Paul Erlich

Deep Orange and Black BUTTERFLY

If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies. ~Author Unknown



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Orange Butterfly on Yellow Flowers

Do ye not comprehend that we are worms,
Born to bring forth the angelic butterfly
That flieth unto judgment without screen?
~Dante Alighieri

Black-White and Orange Butterfly on a Leaf

The green grass and the happy skies
court the fluttering butterflies. ~Astrid Alauda

Red Orange Butterfly on a Leaf

And what's a butterfly? At best,
He's but a caterpillar, at rest.
~John Grey