For the love of my little friends, on the brink of transformation!
“As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on,
so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.”
~ William Blake
“Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar
is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar”
~ Bradley Millar
Do ye not comprehend that we are worms,
Born to bring forth the angelic butterfly
That flieth unto judgment without screen?
~Dante Alighieri
“On Saturday, he ate through one piece of chocolate cake, one ice-cream cone, one pickle, one slice of Swiss cheese, one slice of salami, one lollipop, one piece of cherry pie, one sausage, one cupcake, and one slice of watermelon
That night he had a stomach ache.”
― Eric Carle, The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Ah, Alice, you’ve returned…
~ The Caterpillar from Alice in Wonderland
Even caterpillars can fly
if they would just lighten up.
~ Anonymous
… and voila!!
Adding wings to caterpillars does not create butterflies, it creates awkward and dysfunctional caterpillars. Butterflies are created through transformation.
~ Stephanie Marshall
There is nothing in a caterpillar
that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
~Richard Buckminster Fuller
I wonder if caterpillars know they’re gonna fly some day
or they just start building a cocoon and are like ‘why am I doing this’.
~Anonymous
The faith of a caterpillar…
And what’s a butterfly?
At best, He’s but a caterpillar, at rest.
~John Grey
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world,
the master calls a butterfly.
~ Richard Bach
The last few months, my lil’ garden witnessed a caterpillar party of sorts. I was so pleased to play host to so many caterpillars and eventually butterflies!
The one thing I had missed earlier, was to see how the little crawly ends up as a cocoon. I was so fortunate to document the various phases and changes the caterpillar goes through, to be able to transform itself completely. And here I am, sharing it with you. I hope this is useful for students and other fellow beings, curious about the way of the creator…
