How does one become a butterfly? Pooh asked pensively.
You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar. Piglet replied,
'You mean to die? asked Pooh. 'Yes and no, he answered. 'What looks like you will die, but what's really you will live on'.
- A A Milne
Polyommatus bellargus
Saturnia pavonia
Vanessa cardui
Vanessa atalanta
'Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp but, if you would sit down quietly, may alight upon you'.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Aglais io
Pararge aegeria
Papilio machaon
Apatura iris
'I sit beside the fire and think of all that I have seen, of meadow flowers and butterflies in summer that have been'.
- J R R Tolkien
Nymphalis polychloros
Tiger Moth
Arctia caja