Butterflies

"Perhosia mahassa. (Pori, Satakunta) (RRO)"

"Some butterflies, notably the , and feed on and can be found on damaged areas of tree trunks. They are also attracted to the smell of dung and manure."

"I'd be a butterfly, born in a bower, Where roses and lilies and violets meet."

"But these are flowers that fly and all but sing."

"The butterfly's floating magnificence crosses Our lawn for a moment, then flutters beyond."

"Butterflies … not quite birds as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures."

"Diaphanous, roseate, Floating before us Butterflies … butterflies — Vibrations of the great Unknown."

"He looked out sentimentally at his friends: the ethereal castanets of the butterflies."

"Gray sail against the sky, Gray butterfly! Have you a dream for going Or are you only the blind wind's blowing?"

"With the rose the butterfly's deep in love, A thousand times hovering round; But round himself, all tender like gold, The sun's sweet ray is hovering found."

"Far out at sea,—the sun was high, While veer'd the wind and flapped the sail, We saw a snow-white butterfly Dancing before the fitful gale, Far out at sea."

"The gold-barr'd butterflies to and fro And over the waterside wander'd and wove As heedless and idle as clouds that rove And drift by the peaks of perpetual snow."

"And many an ante-natal tomb Where butterflies dream of the life to come."

"Much converse do I find in thee, Historian of my infancy! Float near me; do not yet depart! Dead times revive in thee: Thou bring'st, gay creature as thou art! A solemn image to my heart."

"Once upon a time, I, Chuang Chou, dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was Chou. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man. Between a man and a butterfly there is necessarily a distinction. The transition is called the transformation of material things."