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Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.

—Anonymous

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Even flow,
thoughts arrive
like butterflies

—Pearl Jam

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on the patio
the afternoon drifts along
with the butterfly

—Patricia J. MachMiller

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The butterfly
jots a note on the wind
to remind itself of something.

—Braided Creek

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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued is always just beyond our grasp, but which, if we will sit down quietly, may alight upon us.

—Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Butterflies are self-propelled flowers.

—Robert A. Heinlein

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Love is like a butterfly—it goes where it pleases and it pleases where it goes.

—Anonymous

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

—R. Buckminster Fuller

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The butterfly’s brain,
the size of a grain of salt,
guides her to Mexico.

—Braided Creek

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Poem: Joy

Poem: Caterpillar Song

Poem: Butterfly with Parachute

Poem: Butterflies

Poem: Butterflies

Poem: Butterflies Under Persimmon

Poem: Butterfly

Poem: The Butterfly

Poem: Seven White Butterflies

Poem: butterfly man tells a story

Poem: Chrysalis

Poem: Caterpillar

Poem: Caterpillars

Poem: A Clearing by a Stream

Half a billion monarch butterflies

How a caterpillar becomes a butterfly

Caterpillar to chrysalis

Monarch butterfly life cycle

Rhopalocera

Devotions

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