Butterfly Quote by Rod McKuen

I sit beside the fire and think of all that I have seen, of meadow-flowers and butterflies in summers that have been; Of yellow…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

A multitude of bees can tell the time of day, calculate the geometry of the sun's position, argue about the best location for the…

— Lewis Thomas

Every time I look into your eyes, I see the sun come up. It makes me start to wonder why it never has before…

— Stephen Jerzak

And on the other side, you have a child running through a field of flowers, high and laughing in the sun.

— David Crosby

In the name of the bee And of the butterfly And of the breeze, amen!

— Emily Dickinson

“At the top, I put the camera's viewfinder to my eye and slowly turned, the way my grandmother had taught me. From every vantage…

— Mary Simses

The sun fades like the spreading Of a peacock's tail, as though twilight Might be read as a warning to those desperate For easy…

— John Ashbery

Just living is not enough, said the butterfly, one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

— Anonymous

Who knows what may lie around the next corner? There may be a window somewhere ahead. It may look out on a field of…

— Joe Hill

“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

and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.

— Ruskin Bond

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

— George Sand