“Butterflies... not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.”
Elizabeth Goudge
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
Maya Angelou
“Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.”
Federico Garcia Lorca
“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
“Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto judgment without screen?”
Dante Alighieri
“What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?”
Roy Rogers
“I did a butterfly show in Berlin, and we had a guy who's an expert on butterflies; who bred them all and who looks after them all in the space.”
Damien Hirst
