Asociatia Intermediunet Romania (INRO) - A mutual support framework for Romanian science groups working together in order to protect the environment. Facts, articles, news, events, forum and resources. Based in IaÅŸi. [English/Romanian]
Carpathian Brown Bear - Promoting an attempt to save the Brown Bear population in the Romanian Carpathian mountains from extermination.
AVES - Foundation for Wildlife Conservation in Romania - An independent and non governmental civil organization whose main aim is the protection of birds, but whose activity also covers other public environmental protecting problems.
ABC Ecologic - A foundation to save the natural ecosystems, by way of seminars, conferences, meetings and education. News, projects and contact. Bucharest based. [English/Romanian]
The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Environment Protection "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Environment Protection
When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Environment Protection "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Environment Protection
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Environment Protection If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Environment Protection
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Environment Protection I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Environment Protection
"I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Environment Protection It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Environment Protection
"Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Environment Protection I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Environment Protection
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Environment Protection Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Environment Protection
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Environment Protection What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Environment Protection
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Environment Protection May you never leave your marriage alive. "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Environment Protection
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Environment Protection People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Environment Protection
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Environment Protection "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Environment Protection
