The Butterfly is a Flying Flower

May the wings of the butterfly kiss the sun.
And find your shoulder to light on.
To bring you luck, happiness and riches.
Today, tomorrow and beyond.
~Irish Blessing

The butterfly counts not months

but moments, and has time enough.

~Rabindranath Tagore

The butterfly is a flying flower, The flower a tethered butterfly.
~Ecouchard Le Brun

Butterflies are self propelled flowers.

~R. H. Heinlein

Gray sail against the sky, Gray butterfly!

Have you a dream for going.

Or are you the blind wind's blowing?

~Dana Burnet (A Sail at Twilight)

Spread your wings and prepare to fly / For you have become a butterfly / Fly abandonedly into the sun / If you should return to me / We truly were meant to be / So spread your wings and fly / Butterfly ~Mariah Carey (Butterfly)

It is eternity now. I am in the midst of it. It is about me in the sunshine;

I am in it, as the butterfly in the light-laden air.

~Richard Jefferies (The Story of my Heart)

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All pictures by me, taken at the Boltz Conservatory, Olbrich Botanical Gardens. July 2005.