Mediterranean Fruits - The current situation of nine temperate Mediterranean fruits and nuts in the world, discussed in descending order of economic importance.
The MEDUSA Network - Conservation and Sustainable Use of Wild Plants of the Mediterranean Region.
The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Science and Environment "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Science and Environment
"I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Science and Environment The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Science and Environment
"The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Science and Environment I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Science and Environment
"Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Science and Environment Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Science and Environment
With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Science and Environment "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Science and Environment
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Science and Environment "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Science and Environment
"I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Science and Environment The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Science and Environment
Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Science and Environment "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Science and Environment
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Science and Environment When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Science and Environment
Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Science and Environment You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Science and Environment
Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Science and Environment The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Science and Environment
