Backgrounds Quote by Joel Sartore

Some butterflies are just flying flowers...very beautiful!!!

— Terry Mark

What is a butterfly? At best He's but a caterpiller drest. The gaudy Fop's his picture just.

— Benjamin Franklin

“A butterfly is a travelling flower, turning the air into a garden and carrying the poetry of spring on wings painted by nature's dreams.”

— Bhuwan Thapaliya

The butterfly is a flying flower, The flower a tethered butterfly.

— Ponce Denis Écouchard Le Brun

Butterflies were small and light, and very magic sensitive. For some reason I made them feel safe and they gravitated to me like iron…

— Ilona Andrews

What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?

— Roy Rogers

The painter wanders and loiters contentedly from place to place, always on the lookout for some brilliant butterfly of a picture which can be…

— Winston Churchill

Butterflies are self propelled flowers.

— Robert A. Heinlein

When I look at a wildlife or nature subject, I dont see the feathers in the wings, I just count the wings. I see…

— Charley Harper

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

— George Sand

Now seen...now gone, The butterfly flits in and out Through fence-hung flowers; But a life lived so close to them I envy...though it's here…

— Saigyō

Oh! To be a butterfly Still, upon a flower, Winking with its painted wings, Happy in the hour.

— Amy Lowell