Fly Into Flying

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Friedrich Nietzsche

According to The Dragonfly Website , dragonflies are “among the very first winged insects to evolve over 300 million years ago.” They also eat mosquitoes. Regarding their flying capabilities, here’s an excerpt from the website’s Dragonfly Flight page , which also has a cool science video about dragonfly flight: “They are the strongest flyers in the insect world… Dragonflies might not be fast, but they are spectacularly agile flyers. They can propel themselves upwards, downwards, backwards, forwards, side to side, and they can even hover in midair!”

About the author

Friedrich Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philologist, philosopher, poet, cultural critic and composer who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers. He began his career as a classical philologist, turning to philosophy early in his academic career. In 1869, aged 24, Nietzsche became the youngest professor to hold the Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel. Regarded as one of most influential intellectuals of modern history, Nietzsche’s works and views have earned him enduring influence and admiration. Having had health problems that plagued him most of his life, he resigned from university in 1879, after which he completed much of his core writing in the following decade. In 1889, aged 44, he suffered a collapse and afterward a complete loss of his mental faculties, with paralysis and vascular dementia. He lived his remaining years under care of his family until his death, in 1900.