Abruzzo - An article on the parks, in english, from Radio Nederland site.
National Park of Abruzzo - The official site describes and illustrates nature and wildlife in the park, including the brown bear, lynx, wolf and deer.
What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Parks When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Parks
I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Parks "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Parks
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Parks "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Parks
"There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Parks Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Parks
Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Parks It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Parks
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Parks "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Parks
"Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Parks We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Parks
"College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Parks And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Parks
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Parks He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Parks
The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Parks My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Parks
He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Parks Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Parks
