"Monarch Butterfly" Quotes . Top 30 Short Quotes About "Monarch Butterfly"

"There is a difference between our wisdom and nature's simplicity. That reflects the burden of a complex intelligence. A complex intelligence like ours is impotent compared to the intelligence of a monarch butterfly migrating from Canada to Mexico, or the intelligence of hummingbirds that have co-evolved with the flowers all along their migration route. That seems so simple; it just happens, it just unfolds."

--- Alison Hawthorne Deming

#Mexico #Complexes #Differences

"When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away."

--- Anna Pavlova

#Small Child #Brief Moments #Love

"When a small child... I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong."

--- Anna Pavlova

#Success #Small Child #Brief Moments

"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."

--- Zhuangzi

#Awareness #Stubborn #Butterfly

"A million butterflies rose up from South America, All together, and flew in a gold storm toward Spain."

--- Winfield Townley Scott

#Spain #Butterfly #Storm

"I've watched you now a full half-hour; Self-poised upon that yellow flower And, little Butterfly! Indeed I know not if you sleep or feed. How motionless! - not frozen seas More motionless! and then What joy awaits you, when the breeze Hath found you out among the trees, And calls you forth again!"

--- William Wordsworth

#Half Hours #Found #Butterfly

"I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly."

--- William Stafford

#Butterfly #Embrace #Emerging

"This great purple butterfly, In the prison of my hands, Has a learning in his eye Not a poor fool understands."

--- William Butler Yeats

#Purple #Eye #Butterfly

"We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever."

--- Carl Sagan

#Thinking #Time #Butterfly

"I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free."

--- Charles Dickens

#Asks #Butterfly #Bleak House

"I learned about the sacred art of self decoration with the monarch butterflies perched atop my head, lightning bugs as my night jewelry, and emerald-green frogs as bracelets."

--- Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#Green #Jewelry #Butterfly

"Nerves and butterflies are fine - they're a physical sign that you're mentally ready and eager. You have to get the butterflies to fly in formation, that's the trick."

--- Steve Bull

#Ready #I Get Butterflies #Butterfly

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

--- Dana Burnet

#Sail #Butterfly #Gray

"Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto judgment without screen?"

--- Dante Alighieri

#Screens #Butterfly #Born

"Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves."

--- Drew Barrymore

#Beautiful #Beauty #Butterfly

"They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods"

--- Edith Wharton

#Winter #Butterfly #Happiness

"The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of flying straight."

--- Robert Graves

#Late #Butterfly #Idiocy

"Butterflies...flowers that fly and all but sing."

--- Robert Frost

#Butterfly #Flower #Monarch Butterfly

"But these are flowers that fly and all but sing: And now from having ridden out desire They lie closed over in the wind and cling Where wheels have freshly sliced the April mire."

--- Robert Frost

#Butterfly #Flower #Desire

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

--- Elizabeth Goudge

#Butterfly #Bird #Flower

"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly."

--- Richard Bach

#Love Death #Ignorance #Change

"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."

--- Rabindranath Tagore

#Timeliness #Seasons #Inspirational Nature

"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 Tagore

#Thanks #Gaudy #Butterfly

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

--- R. Buckminster Fuller

#Success #Great Educational #Change

"The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if they did not fly, or if they flew straight and briskly like bees, or if they stung, or above all if they did not enact the perturbing mystery of metamorphosis: the latter assumes in our eyes the value of a badly decoded message, a symbol, a sign."

--- Primo Levi

#Thinking #Attractiveness #Eye

"The butterfly is a flying flower, The flower a tethered butterfly."

--- Ponce Denis Ecouchard Lebrun

#Butterfly #Flower #Flowers And Gardens

"Listen with your heart, you will understand."

--- Pocahontas

#Listening #Heart #Passed Away

"We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are."

--- Friedrich Nietzsche

#Inner Child #Butterfly #Flower

"We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are. We adults, on the other hand, have outgrown them and have to lower ourselves to stoop down to them. It seems to me that the grass hates us when we confess our love for it. Whoever would partake of all good things must understand how to be small at times."

--- Friedrich Nietzsche

#Inner Child #Butterfly #Adults

"The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory."

--- Gary Zukav

#Winter #Winter Solstice #Special To Me

30 "Monarch Butterfly" Quotes