“If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles.”
—J. B. S. Haldane
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“Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”
—Nathaniel Hawthorne
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(1804–1864)
“Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonfly hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky.”
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti
(1828–1882)
Silent Noon
“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”
—Frank Lloyd Wright
(1869-1959)
“Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.”
—Christopher Fry
(1907–2005)
“Hurt no living thing:
Ladybird, nor butterfly,
Nor moth with dusty wing”—Christina Georgina Rossetti
(1830–1894)