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"But, in the end, whether people know how small a portion of time is given to the butterfly, how large a portion to the caterpillar, does not matter. For they can never infect the caterpillar with their anxious urges to 'Become!'. A small apple-green caterpillar who somehow loses a foothold while walking across a stem to get to a leaf, slips and is hanging on by only two crotchet-hooked feet, is not thinking: 'Alack! I shall fall into the icy water! I shall be swallowed by a fish! I will never, now, wrap myself in silk and wake up with powdery, iridescent blue-and-green wings, fly away with them to fields of cornflower.' Rather, it thinks, 'I'm swinging, I'm swinging, I'm swinging.'" from "Things That Are", by Amy Leach #Bookstodon #Nature #Caterpillars