Flowers in Flight

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. ~Charles Dickens Butterflies are self propelled flowers. ~R.H. Heinlein The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity. ~Attributed to George Carlin What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, The Master calls a butterfly. ~Richard Bach 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, "Blue-Butterfly Day" The butterfly is a flying flower, The flower a tethered butterfly. ~Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun 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 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, "To a Butterfly" Flowers and butterflies drift in color, illuminating spring. ~Author Unknown Not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures. ~ Elizabeth Goudge