Ever try to hold a butterfly? It can't be done. You damage them," he said. 'As gentle as you try to be, you take the powder from their wings and they won't ever fly the same. It's kinder to let them go.
Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers.
No lepidopterist's collection in the entire world...full if iridescent wings, is worth the life of a single butterfly.
And the case of butterflies so rich it looks As if all summer settled there and died.
What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?
Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger.
As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you; but to question the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists.
The study of butterflies-creatures selected as the types of airiness and frivolity-instead of being despised, will some day be valued as one of the most important branches of Biological science.
