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The Skull Butterfly is a personalized display – enamel pins	added by eliminate 1 year ago
This is a tremendous success story – to go from nearly extinct to on the road to recovery, we’ve only reached this point of being able to downlist because of successful partnerships with landowners, conservation agencies, businesses, other agencies, and the work of our national wildlife refuges to conserve Fender’s butterfly. – Craig Rowland	Found on CNN 1 year ago
If the butterfly gives its wings to the slug, both of them will not fly. – Wesley D'Amico	added by WesleyD'Amico 1 year ago
Just like a butterfly's chrysalis, this satellite was long dormant and suddenly became active, and the rings emerged. – Jack Wisdom	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I don’t know anything about what I’m talking about. But let’s utter the word ‘entropy’ and ‘systems’ and how things break down, before the butterfly comes out of the chrysalis, the caterpillar has some convulsions, chaotic convulsions. But it’s not death, necessarily. It’s the onset of transformation. – Jeff Goldblum	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Why do we appreciate the metamorphosis of the butterfly more than the beauty of ageing? – Sanita Belgrave	added by sanita_b 2 years ago
Consider your favorite forest or hillside and imagine helicopters dropping heavily weighted wires and clear cutting everything in their path, plowing into the soil, but also taking out every bee, butterfly, bird, bush and bear, we wouldn't allow that on land, not for a minute, but this is what's happening in the ocean all day, every day. – Amanda Vincent	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder. – Henry David Thoreau	added by Normando 2 years ago
We were inspired by her 200 butterfly and we were excited, it made us determined to do our best at the relay. – Li Bingjie	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It's interesting to reaffirm that what people have been thinking for nearly 100 years is true, that this was a species driven to extinction by human activities, when this butterfly was collected 93 years ago, nobody was thinking about sequencing its DNA. That's why we have to keep collecting, for researchers 100 years in the future. – Felix Grewe	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The Xerces blue butterfly was the first insect in United States that was documented to be driven to extinction by human activities. – Corrie Moreau	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Museomics is the use of museum collections for genome sequencing and other analytical techniques that could not even be imagined when the majority of museum specimens were collected, what makes this so groundbreaking is that we can address questions that can not be answered any other way. This study is a great example of this since we can not go out and collect the Xerces blue butterfly and the only way to address genetic questions about this species is by turning to museum collections. – Corrie Moreau	Found on CNN 2 years ago
She was in the best shape of her life. She was working out five times a week with a personal trainer. She loved to go out and have fun. She was a social butterfly. And she got sick, and it was just a slow decline from there. – Rachel Maginn Rosser	Found on CNN 2 years ago
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. – Richard Bach	added by YashaaGlobal 3 years ago
When I sat there, I was in my hair and makeup trailer, and heres what I felt. In my belly, I felt a flutter. I felt like a little butterfly in my stomach, and immediately I knew that I had life inside of me. the doctor says, you see that right there, that little grain of rice ? Thats the baby. You see that other little grain of rice over here ? Thats the other baby. – Jennifer Lopez	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
We did analysis on the butterfly. It felt rubbery to touch, with a waxy surface that repelled water. – Andre Simpson	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The butterfly is essentially made from fat, which means it is biodegradable. – Andre Simpson	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I managed to find [a butterfly] that was the same size and shape that could work. – Katie VanBlaricum	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I see our picture, a couple in love. In the full frame of the picture to our right is our Marine Vietnam vet, Corky. He's sleeping so he's the peace. On the other side is the butterfly. That's hope, and I sincerely wish that future generations get that same feeling from that picture. There's always hope, no matter how chaotic. If you have love and peace and trust, there's always hope. And while I certainly wasn't a hippie back in 1969, I think deep in my heart I am one now. – Bobbi Ercoline	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I am a believer of butterfly effect. A small positive vibration can change the entire cosmos. – Amit Ray	added by anonymous 4 years ago
Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder. – Unknown	added by anonymous 5 years ago
I think The Butterfly Foundation's a marketing ploy to adults and to parents who have been inundated with the messaging of : do not let your child get fat. In this time, when obesity is threatening, don't let your child get fat. And since when did that translate into a toddler having to be so concerned about putting on weight ? That to me is just taking it too far. – Christine Morgan	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly. – Proverb	added by anonymous 6 years ago
Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over it became a butterfly – Proverb	added by anonymous 7 years ago

The Skull Butterfly is a personalized display

– enamel pins

added by eliminate
1 year ago

This is a tremendous success story – to go from nearly extinct to on the road to recovery, we’ve only reached this point of being able to downlist because of successful partnerships with landowners, conservation agencies, businesses, other agencies, and the work of our national wildlife refuges to conserve Fender’s butterfly.

– Craig Rowland

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If the butterfly gives its wings to the slug, both of them will not fly.

– Wesley D'Amico

added by WesleyD'Amico
1 year ago

Just like a butterfly's chrysalis, this satellite was long dormant and suddenly became active, and the rings emerged.

– Jack Wisdom

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I don’t know anything about what I’m talking about. But let’s utter the word ‘entropy’ and ‘systems’ and how things break down, before the butterfly comes out of the chrysalis, the caterpillar has some convulsions, chaotic convulsions. But it’s not death, necessarily. It’s the onset of transformation.

– Jeff Goldblum

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Why do we appreciate the metamorphosis of the butterfly more than the beauty of ageing?

– Sanita Belgrave

added by sanita_b
2 years ago

Consider your favorite forest or hillside and imagine helicopters dropping heavily weighted wires and clear cutting everything in their path, plowing into the soil, but also taking out every bee, butterfly, bird, bush and bear, we wouldn't allow that on land, not for a minute, but this is what's happening in the ocean all day, every day.

– Amanda Vincent

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.

– Henry David Thoreau

added by Normando
2 years ago

We were inspired by her 200 butterfly and we were excited, it made us determined to do our best at the relay.

– Li Bingjie

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's interesting to reaffirm that what people have been thinking for nearly 100 years is true, that this was a species driven to extinction by human activities, when this butterfly was collected 93 years ago, nobody was thinking about sequencing its DNA. That's why we have to keep collecting, for researchers 100 years in the future.

– Felix Grewe

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The Xerces blue butterfly was the first insect in United States that was documented to be driven to extinction by human activities.

– Corrie Moreau

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Museomics is the use of museum collections for genome sequencing and other analytical techniques that could not even be imagined when the majority of museum specimens were collected, what makes this so groundbreaking is that we can address questions that can not be answered any other way. This study is a great example of this since we can not go out and collect the Xerces blue butterfly and the only way to address genetic questions about this species is by turning to museum collections.

– Corrie Moreau

Found on CNN
2 years ago

She was in the best shape of her life. She was working out five times a week with a personal trainer. She loved to go out and have fun. She was a social butterfly. And she got sick, and it was just a slow decline from there.

– Rachel Maginn Rosser

Found on CNN
2 years ago

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

– Richard Bach

added by YashaaGlobal
3 years ago

When I sat there, I was in my hair and makeup trailer, and heres what I felt. In my belly, I felt a flutter. I felt like a little butterfly in my stomach, and immediately I knew that I had life inside of me. the doctor says, you see that right there, that little grain of rice ? Thats the baby. You see that other little grain of rice over here ? Thats the other baby.

– Jennifer Lopez

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

We did analysis on the butterfly. It felt rubbery to touch, with a waxy surface that repelled water.

– Andre Simpson

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The butterfly is essentially made from fat, which means it is biodegradable.

– Andre Simpson

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I managed to find [a butterfly] that was the same size and shape that could work.

– Katie VanBlaricum

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I see our picture, a couple in love. In the full frame of the picture to our right is our Marine Vietnam vet, Corky. He's sleeping so he's the peace. On the other side is the butterfly. That's hope, and I sincerely wish that future generations get that same feeling from that picture. There's always hope, no matter how chaotic. If you have love and peace and trust, there's always hope. And while I certainly wasn't a hippie back in 1969, I think deep in my heart I am one now.

– Bobbi Ercoline

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I am a believer of butterfly effect. A small positive vibration can change the entire cosmos.

– Amit Ray

added by anonymous
4 years ago

Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.

– Unknown

added by anonymous
5 years ago

I think The Butterfly Foundation's a marketing ploy to adults and to parents who have been inundated with the messaging of : do not let your child get fat. In this time, when obesity is threatening, don't let your child get fat. And since when did that translate into a toddler having to be so concerned about putting on weight ? That to me is just taking it too far.

– Christine Morgan

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.

– Proverb

added by anonymous
6 years ago

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over it became a butterfly

– Proverb

added by anonymous
7 years ago

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