An excellent photograph of a butterfly - Image: Frank Starmer
Look at this brilliant post.50 top images and the best quotes about colorful butterflies
We hope you’ll enjoy these fantastic images of 50 colorful butterflies, captured from different parts of the lovely planet. We’ve also dedicated these images to the famous thinkers, writers and personalities of the world by adding their fabulous sayings / quotes. This dazzling creature is really magnificent gift of nature ;
1- “Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
2- “The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.”
― George Carlin
3- “He said that we belonged together because he was born with a flower and I was born with a butterfly and that flowers and butterflies need each other for survival.” ― Gemma Malley, The Declaration
4- “Butterflies are self propelled flowers. ” ― R.H. Heinlein
5- The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. ~Rabindranath Tagore
6- “You can only chase a butterfly for so long.” ― Jane Yolen, Prince Across the Water
7- The butterfly is a flying flower, The flower a tethered butterfly. ~Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun
8- 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.
~Heinrich Heine, “New Spring”
9- Love is like a butterfly: It goes where it pleases and it pleases wherever it goes !
10- “How does one become a butterfly?” she asked. “You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.
11- Flowers and butterflies drift in color, illuminating spring.
12- Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. – Mohammad Ali
13- I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man? – Zhuangzi
14- The green grass and the happy skies court the fluttering butterflies. ~Terri Guillemets
15- Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
16- I wasn’t a social butterfly at all. – Kate Bosworth
17- We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
18- A million butterflies rose up from South America,
All together, and flew in a gold storm toward Spain…
~Winfield Townley Scott, “Annual Legend”
19- This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still. ~Joseph Conrad
20- As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one’s attending upon you; but to question the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists. ~Marianne Moore, “To a Steam Roller”
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Let me be dressed fine as I will, Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still. ~Isaac Watts
22- 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. ~Chuang Tzu
23- I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one – like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.- Gillian Flynn
24- “Beautiful and graceful, varied and enchanting, small but approachable, butterflies lead you to the sunny side of life. And everyone deserves a little sunshine.~Jeffrey Glassberg”
25- “I have butterflies in my stomach, I have the biggest smile on my face and I’m totally crazy about the boy who are giving me these feelings!”
26- “Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it eludes you.
But if you turn your attention to other things,It comes and sits softly on your shoulder.” – Henry David Thoreau
27- Not everyone can give you butterflies, so don’t just let them fly away !
28- Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works. – Alma Gluck
29- LOVE IS LIKE A BUTTERFLY, IF YOU HOLD IT TO TIGHT IT WILL DIE, IF YOU HOLD IT TO LOSE IT WILL FLY AWAY.
30- “Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”
31- “Love is like a butterfly, it goes where it pleases and it pleases where it goes”
32- I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.~Charles Dickens
33- And what’s a butterfly? At best,
He’s but a caterpillar, at rest. ~John Grey
34- We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.~Maya Angelou
35- Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave. The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him.~Rabindranath
36- “What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”
37- “Nature’s message was always there and for us to see. It was written on the wings of butterflies.”~ Kjell B. Sandved
38- “This great purple butterfly,In the prison of my hands,
Has a learning in his eye Not a poor fool understands.”~W.B Yeats
39- “Love is like a butterfly, It can fly away.”
40- “To make a wish come true, whisper it to a Butterfly.
Upon these wings it will be taken to heaven and granted, for they are the messengers of the Great Spirit.”
~Native American Legend
41- “We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it’s forever.” ~Carl Sagan
42- “Happiness can be as elusive as a fluttering butterfly, But as easily attainable as a crawling caterpillar. Put aside the net and let it happen.”~Brian G. Jett
43- “How does one become a butterfly?” she asked pensively. “You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give
up being a caterpillar.” ~Trina Paulus
44- Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man. – Vladimir Nabokov
45- Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold. William Moulton Marston
46- What’s a butterfly garden without butterflies? – Roy Rogers
47- We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. – Gerald Brenan
48- “Just living is not enough,” said the butterfly, “one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower.” – Hans Christian Anderson
49- The green grass and the happy skies court the fluttering butterflies. – Astrid Alauda
50- The fluttering of a butterfly’s wings can effect climate changes on the other side of the planet. – Paul Erlich
These lovely 50 Colorful Butterflies are really the magnificent Gift of Nature.
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