“Butterflies are self propelled flowers.” — Robert A. Heinlein
Nature
White tigers are from Bengal tigers that a carry a double recessive mutant gene. In the wild some estimates are there would naturally be about one white tiger for every 10,000 orange tigers. White tigers can be selectively bred for white in captivity. All of the lineage can be traced to one white tiger captured in 1951. There are no known white tigers in the wild and an estimated 200 in captivity.
“But most of all I shall remember the monarchs, that unhurried westward drift of one small winged form after another, each drawn by some invisible force.” — Rachel Carson
〰️ Monarch Butterfly
Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragon-fly
Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky:
So this winged hour is dropt to us from above.
Oh! clasp we to our hearts, for deathless dower,
This close-companioned inarticulate hour
When twofold silence was the song of love.
— Dante Gabriel Rossetti
A Knock On The Door
James Tate
“They ask me if I’ve ever thought about the end of the world, and I say, “Come in, come in, let me give you some lunch, for God’s sake.” After a few bites it’s the afterlife they want to talk about. ”Ouch,” I say, “did you see that grape leaf skeletonizer?” Then they’re talking about redemption and the chosen few sitting right by His side. “Doing what?” I ask. “Just sitting?” I am surrounded by burned up zombies. “Let’s have some lemon chiffon pie I bought yesterday at the 3 Dog Bakery.” But they want to talk about my soul. I’m getting drowsy and see butterflies everywhere. “Would you gentlemen like to take a nap, I know I would.” They stand and back away from me, out the door, walking toward my neighbors, a black cloud over their heads and they see nothing without end.”
“One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care.
Such is the quality of bees…” ― Leo Tolstoy
“Butterflies can’t see their wings. They can’t see how truly beautiful they are,
but everyone else can. People are like that as well.” ― Naya Rivera
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“I am the dragonfly rising on the wings of unlocked dreams on the verge of magical things.”
– Aimee Stewart
“Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity,
and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.” — Henry David Thoreau
“Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up,
it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up.
It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve.
It doesn’t matter whether you’re the lion or a gazelle-
when the sun comes up, you’d better be running.” — Christopher McDougall
Maverick Mist 