Monday, January 18, 2010

Patience

"......... the story of a demonstration by a biologist: he and his class watched a butterfly slowly emerge from its chrysalis and with agonizing deliberation expand its tightly folded wings.  The scientist, impatient, helpful, stretched the wing and damaged it forever, teaching his students the while.  Inevitably, one must learn to wait." (my italics)

A Trap For Fools - Carolyn Heilbrun, (January 13, 1926 – October 9, 2003), writing under the pen name of Amanda Cross.

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