If you are old and you wish to be young again, if only for a moment, try and identify a dragonfly. — Simon Barnes Copy Share Image
“Bees and butterflies, moths and dragonflies, the flowers and the brooks and the clouds.” — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
I got to keep a clip for my hair. It had a pretty little dragonfly on it and I got to keep… — Mackenzie Foy Copy Share Image
Go to sleep, baby,Mama will sing. Of blue butterflies, and dragonfly wings. Moonlight and sunbeams, raiments so fine. Silver and gold, for… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
The beauteous dragonfly's dancing By the waves of the rivulet glancing; She dances here and she dances there, The glimmering, glittering flutterer… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Twisting through the thorn-thick underbrush, scratched and exhausted, one turns suddenly to find an unexpected waterfall, not half a mile from the… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
Unless you are here: this garden refuses to exist. Pink dragonflies fall from the air and become scorpions scratching blood out of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ...We are all shape-shifters… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Perhaps everything lies in knowing what words to speak, what actions to perform, and in what order and rhythm; or else someone's… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Question four: What book would you give to every child? Answer: I wouldn't give them a book. Books are part of the… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Whoever the kid had been, whoever had the grand attitude, has finally heeded the admonishment of parents, teachers, governments, religions, and the… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
...The girls chirped and chatted like uncaged warblers. They were delirious with joy... Intoxications of life’s morning! Enchanted years! The wing of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
So, that was Nature's way. The mosquito felt pain and panic but the dragonfly knew nothing of cruelty. Humans would call it… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
“As a child, crisp spring afternoons were spent wading along Reedy Creek just beyond the field. Then came the heavy breeze in… — James Russell Lingerfelt Copy Share Image
Their love as a dragonfly, skimming over echo park, stoppin to visit the lotus. Eating dreams and drinking blue sky. — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Smile / to see the lake / lay / the still sky / And / out for an easy / make / the dragonfly. — Lorine Niedecker Copy Share Image
Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long. — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonfly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky. — Dante Gabriel Rossetti Copy Share Image
It's very far away/It takes about a half a day to get there/ If we travel by-dragonfly. — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
Clouds of insects danced and buzzed in the golden autumn light, and the air was full of the piping of the song-birds.… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Yesterday a child came out to wonder Caught a dragonfly inside a jar Fearful when the sky was full of thunder And… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Sitting on the floor of a room in Japan, looking out on a small garden with flowers blooming and dragonflies hovering in… — Mark Tobey Copy Share Image
“Sounds buzz around me, and I'm sure the painted dragonflies have come loose from the frieze on our walls to flap their… — Sarah Miller Copy Share Image
I need to capture my sprite with trembling hands. Except I could crush her. Wonder how many small things of beauty -… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“With my arms wrapped around Rosebud, I dreamed of heather-topped hills and sleepy valleys and a pretty woodland stream where dragonflies danced… — Hazel Gaynor Copy Share Image
“Old Jiko is supercareful with her time. She does everything really really slowly, even when she's just sitting on the veranda, looking… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
Anyone can buy a car or a night on the town. Most of us shell our days like peanuts. One in a… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
The point of the dragonfly's terrible lip, the giant water bug, birdsong, or the beautiful dazzle and flash of sunlighted minnows,is not… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“At night she’d close her eyes and imagine: over a hundred million billion insects hatching and dying every year—all those bristling, pointed,… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
And in time it will be as though men had never come to this perfect corner of the world-never called it paradise… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I'll be looking for you, Will, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other again, we'll cling together… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Sophia and Grandmother sat down by the shore to discuss the matter further. It was a pretty day, and the sea was… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
He was becoming unstuck, he was sure of that - his bones were no longer wrapped in flesh but in clouds of… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Without constraint, without any form of mental compulsion, the act of belief becomes the freest possible projection of what resides in our… — Terryl L. Givens Copy Share Image
