"Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more."

Vincent van Gogh

March 30, 1853 - July 29, 1890

"[Butterflies are] not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures."

Elizabeth Goudge

April 24, 1900 - April 1, 1984

"Beautiful and graceful, varied and enchanting, small but approachable, butterflies lead you to the sunny side of life. And everyone deserves a little sunshine."

Jeffrey Glassberg

"Butterflies are self propelled flowers."

R. H. Heinlein

"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

July 4, 1804 - May 19, 1864

"Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift."

Albert Einstein

March 14, 1879 - April 18, 1955

"Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life."

Rachel Carson

May 27, 1907 - April 14, 1964

"The butterfly. Exquisite child of the air."

Alice Freeman Palmer

February 21, 1855 - December 6, 1902