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“Alice stopped walking as a dragonfly hovered close. 'Yellow-winged darter.' The name came to mind of its own accord. She watched as the insect…

— Kate Morton

There is a wonderful place where flowers grow in colors beyond the words of poets... trees sing with the songs of butterflies. And mythical…

— Laurel Burch

“A red dragonfly hovers above a backwater of the stream, its wings moving so fast that the eye sees not wings in movement but…

— Neal Stephenson

Nature is sanative, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses, and violets, and morning dew! Every inch…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes. Petals are bone marrow; pearls…

— Maxine Hong Kingston

“I heard a rapid alternation of notes, a vibrating staccato of an ancient instrument, nearly as old as nature herself, a cricket singing in…

— Jeffrey A. White

“Years passed with nothing to show in a land once so enchanted that bees and butterflies slept safe in the blossoms after their nectar…

— Ellen Herrick

“... crystal spheres imprisoning green lizards, salamanders, millefiori bouquets dragonflies, a basket of pears, butterflies alighted on a frond of fern, swirls of pink…

— Truman Capote

yet it seems Life scarce can cast a fragrance on the wind, Scarce spread a glory to the morning beams, But the torn petals…

— William Butler Yeats

There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever…

— Elizabeth Lawrence

“Despite its dark veins, the transparency of dragonfly’s wings assures me of a pure, innocent world”

— Munia Khan

“Sounds buzz around me, and I'm sure the painted dragonflies have come loose from the frieze on our walls to flap their wings in…

— Sarah Miller