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Carlos Estevez, Amores Difíciles, oil and watercolor pencil on canvas, via elemenop
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“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.”
Darius Baužys, Bride (white ermine), 2009
“They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.”
“In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with humans it is the other way around: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.”
“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.”
“Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave. The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him.”
By aussiegall, Lavender dreams, 2007
“Butterflies are self propelled flowers.”
“Not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.”
“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”
Morganglines, Brookside Butterflies, 2007
Luciano Giussani, Pearly Malachite, 2004
Vincent van Gogh, Death’s Head Moth, 1889
Text from Flickr: Newly-emerged Blue Morpho butterflies photographed at the Calgary Zoo.
Butterflies needs to spend some time inflating its wings with blood and letting them dry, during which time it is extremely vulnerable to predators. Some butterflies’ wings may take up to three hours to dry while others take about one hour. Most butterflies and moths will excrete excess dye after hatching. (Wikipedia)
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