Max Muller Quotes

He built a small house, called a cocoon, around himself. He stayed inside for more than two weeks. Then he nibbled a hole in the cocoon, pushed his way out and... he was a beautiful butterfly!

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

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

One thing is certain. The old Piper Laurie is no more.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.

What's so fascinating and frustrating and great about life is that you're constantly starting over, all the time, and I love that.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.

Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with.

One has to shed one's old skin for a positive change.

Nature obliges everything to change about. One thing crumbles and falls in the weakness of age; Another grows in its place from a negligible start. So time alters the whole nature of the world And earth passes from one state to another.

Man is immortal; therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea; it can only find itself in changing forms

Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may swell.

The Lord of Dreams learns that one must change or die, and makes his decision

Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.

In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.

The bud disappears when the blossom breaks through, and we might say that the former is refuted by the latter; in the same way when the fruit comes, the blossom may be explained to be a false form of the plant's existence, for the fruit appears as its true nature in place of the blossom.

Everything is born from change. ...there is nothing nature loves more that to alter what exists and make new things like it. All that exists is the seed of what will emerge from it. You think the only seeds are the one that make plants and children? Go deeper.

Life depends on change, and renewal.

We all have to die a bit every now and then and usually it's so gradual that we end up more alive than ever. Infinitely old and infinitely alive.