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Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Butterfly visits and quotations about butterflies

After you've done your butterfly count, or if you count but don't see many varieties, you might like to take a butterfly visit or plan one.

Starting in London, there's the exhibition at the Natural History Museum.
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit/exhibitions/sensational-butterflies.html

Butterfly Farm in Stratford upon Avon, Warwickshire.


https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g186399-d219201-Reviews-Stratford_upon_Avon_Butterfly_Farm-Stratford_upon_Avon_Warwickshire_England.html

A few butterfly quotes for you to put at the top of your travel diary entry:

The butterfly effect.
Term coined by Edward Lorenz
Inspired the short story The Sound of Thunder by Roy Bradbury, published in 1952, about Time travel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect

What is a butterfly garden without butterflies.
Roy Rogers, American

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
Muhammad Ali, American boxer

I dreamed I was a butterfly. Then I woke.
I did not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
Zhuang

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Rabindranath Tagore

Love is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.
Anna Pavlova, dancer

Love is like a butterfly.
Song by Dorothy Parton, American singer, songwriter, actress

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it is going to become a butterfly.
R Buckminster Fuller

I am sorry if I flit about from visits to quotations. I just have a butterfly mind!

For quotations online I recommend 

For books on quotations, my books:
Quick Quotations
Who Said What When?
See 

Lulu.com Angela Lansbury


Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
For quotations about poets.

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