The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if they did not fly, or if they flew straight and briskly like bees, or if they stung....
or above all if they did not enact the perturbing mystery of metamorphosis: the latter assumes in our eyes the value of a badly decoded message, a symbol, a sign :-)
Primo Levi
HBM!! protect the ones you love...wear a mask, take care :-)
variegated fritillary butterfly on echnacea, coneflower, 'Kismet Raspberry', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
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The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if they did not fly, or if they flew straight and briskly like bees, or if they stung....
or above all if they did not enact the perturbing mystery of metamorphosis: the latter assumes in our eyes the value of a badly decoded message, a symbol, a sign :-)
Primo Levi
HBM!! protect the ones you love...wear a mask, take care :-)
variegated fritillary butterfly on echnacea, coneflower, 'Kismet Raspberry', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
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Uploaded on November 30, 2020
Taken on June 8, 2019