Imaginal Cells — How a Caterpillar Transforms into a Butterfly
This quote by legendary Buckminster Fuller is among my favorites:
“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.”
We all know that a caterpillar turns into a butterfly, and it’s wondrous to anyone that a slow-crawling critter could eventually transform into a majestic flying creature with beautiful wings. Yet people are generally not familiar with how this happens (from my very informal survey of people I know). I only recently learned about this process, and it was one of those moments when I thought — How come I never knew this?! There’s so much to learn here in the way nature works! The magic is in the imaginal cells. We’ll get to this shortly.
