Article: Oasis of calm; Butterfly exhibit alights at New York City natural history museum

The brown butterfly seemed to like its resting place - on Gabe Heafitz's shirt. It crawled from one shoulder to the other and back, opening and closing its wings.As for Heafitz, he just stood calmly and let it wander, not even flinching as it approached his neck. After all, this butterfly - and its home, an oasis of quiet and calm in the sometimes still-frantic city - were the reasons he came to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

"They just give you a peaceful feeling," said Heafitz, who acknowledged that he didn't really like other insects all that much. "They sort of flutter around; they don't bother you."

There are a lot of butterflies fluttering around at the ...

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