We humans think we are smart, but an orchid, for example, knows how to produce noble, symmetrical flowers, and a snail knows… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The term 'breakout' always makes me think of an inmate or some butterfly emerging out of a cocoon. — Tessa Thompson Copy Share Image
“It turns out that the distance from head to hand, from wafting butterfly to entomological specimen, is achieved through regular, disciplined practice.… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“Butterflies are beautiful, but the process of emerging from the chrysalis and spreading your wings can hurt like fucking hell. But still,… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image
17. Butterfly A butterfly fluttered its wings in a wind thick with the smell of seaweed. His dry lips felt the touch… — Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Copy Share Image
There were successful ways of expressing the attitude and less successful ways. I think that spirit is very much alive today actually.… — David Salle Copy Share Image
I'd be a butterfly; living a rover, Dying when fair things are fading away. — Thomas Haynes Bayly Copy Share Image
It's dangerous to watch staggering butterflies. They have a plan but it has no meaning. — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
I decided to become an actor at five. I saw the most gorgeous woman that I had ever seen in my five… — Niecy Nash Copy Share Image
“Yesterday,’ she said, referring to the collective past of her tribe, ‘the people of these forests knew the secret. They made the… — Lidija Stankovikj Copy Share Image
I meant to do my work today But a brown bird sang in the apple tree And a butterfly flitted across the… — Richard Le Gallienne Copy Share Image
How can we trace out the links between actions that people take today and really long-term outcomes for humanity - outcomes that… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
Butterflies doing strange things in very beautiful ways were in my mind when I sat down, but by the time my pen… — William Beebe Copy Share Image
It seems strange that a butterfly's wing should be woven up so thin and gauzy in the monstrous loom of nature, and… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
There's a metaphor Vincent Eades likes to use: "If you examine a butterfly according to the laws of aerodynamics, it shouldn't be… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
My parents have been incredibly supportive of me. They've always stood by me, whatever my decisions. When I was younger, I was… — Edith Bowman Copy Share Image
Open your heart and mind like the wings of a butterfly. See then how high you CAN fly. — Zeenat Aman Copy Share Image
The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I am not so weak as to submit to the demands of the age when they go against my convictions. I spin… — Caspar David Friedrich Copy Share Image
Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Butterflies may be better indicators of the health of our environment than birds. — Roger Tory Peterson Copy Share Image
