„Why make so much of fragmentary blueIn here and there a bird, or butterfly,Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye,When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue.“

— Robert Frost

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„Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?“
— Ernest Hemingway
„Butterflies are self propelled flowers.“
— Robert A. Heinlein
„These flowers will be rotten in a couple hours. Birds will crap on them. The smoke here will make them stink, and tomorrow a bulldozer will probably run over them, but for right now they are so beautiful.“
— Chuck Palahniuk
„Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers.“
— Robert A. Heinlein