![]() ![]() Every tree on the far mountainside was covered with trembling flame, and that, of course, was butterflies…. Out across the valley, the air itself glowed golden. ![]() “The density of the butterflies in the air now gave her a sense of being underwater, plunged into a deep pond among bright fishes. In the book’s apocalyptic ending, we see her determined to learn more – even how to protect our endangered world.įavorite quotations and ideas from Flight Behaviorĭellarobia’s first realization that what she was seeing was millions of butterflies: She becomes his assistant and he becomes her first real teacher. She’s poorly educated but smart and curious, hungry for a wider understanding. When Ovid Byron and his team of scientists arrive to study the Monarchs, Dellarobia’s world opens. But Tennessee is not the place for wintering butterflies, especially during a year of torrential rains and mudslides. To her, it appears to be a miracle and she’s awed by the beauty of the butterflies weighing down the limbs of trees. A good way to conclude for now is to review Barbara Kingsolver’s book, Flight Behavior, a novel that mixes science and song and explores the intimate story of an individual and the universal experience of living through a time of enormous change on Earth.ĭellarobia, a young mother in Appalachia, discovers a colony of migrating Monarchs diverted from their normal flight behavior by the erratic weather of a warming Earth. ![]() I’ve spent all month blogging – and thinking – about butterflies. ![]()
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