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“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 leaves and gossamer in autumns that there were, with morning mist and silver sun and wind upon my hair.”

Thinking Has Beens Nature Morning Sun Fire Wind Flower Hair Summer Silver Autumn Yellow Butterfly Mist Meadows Yellow Leaves Morning Mist

Book:The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.”

“It seems strange that a butterfly's wing should be woven up so thin and gauzy in the monstrous loom of nature, and be so delicately tipped with fire from such a gross hand, and rainbowed all over in such a storm of thunderous elements. The marvel is that such great forces do such nice work.”

Should Hands Seems Force Nature Fire Nice Strange Elements Wings Storm Butterfly Gross Monstrous Woven Nice Work

Book:Centenary Edition [of the Writings of Theodore Parker]

Source: Centenary Edition [of the Writings of Theodore Parker]

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

Names Growth Nature Smart Butterfly Bees Conservation Breeze Amen Smart Growth

Book:Dickinson

Source: Dickinson

“We humans think we are smart, but an orchid, for example, knows how to produce noble, symmetrical flowers, and a snail knows how to make a beautiful, well-proportioned shell. Compared with their knowledge, ours is not worth much at all. We should bow deeply before the orchid and the snail and join our palms reverently before the monarch butterfly and the magnolia tree. The feeling of respect for all species will help us recognize the noblest nature in ourselves.”

Source: Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings

“In her novel Regeneration, Pat Barker writes of a doctor who 'knew only too well how often the early stages of change or cure may mimic deterioration. Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly, a fit emblem of the human soul, for those whose cast of mind leads them to seek such emblems. No, the process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay.”

Source: A Field Guide to Getting Lost

“The tulip and the butterfly Appear in gayer coats than I: Let me be dressed fine as I will, Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.”

Stills Nature Flower Fine Let Me Butterfly Coats Worms Exceed Monarch Butterfly

Author:Isaac Watts

“In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.”

Way Humans Turns Nature Human Beings Human Nature Rounds Lovely Butterfly Caterpillars

Author:Anton Chekhov

“The typical nature photograph shows a butterfly on a pretty flower. The conservation photograph shows the same thing, but with a bulldozer coming at it in the background.”

Shows Nature Flower Photograph Backgrounds Butterfly Typical Conservation Dinosaurs Bulldozers

Author:Joel Sartore