Swiss Alpine Studies - Inter-academies commission on Swiss alpine research. Current events, extensive database of alpine research projects, institutions and contacts. Site with crosslingual userinterface.
The Alpine Landscape of Grindelwald - Presentation of a pilot research project of the Centre for Development and Environment of University of Berne to foster understanding for the beauty of the landscape, diversity of habitats and rarity of vegetation and fauna.
Primalp - An interdisciplinary ETHZ research project on sustainable agriculture and forestry in the Alpine region. Read project presentation, abstracts, and biography.
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Alpine Environment The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Alpine Environment
All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Alpine Environment The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Alpine Environment
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Alpine Environment These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Alpine Environment
"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 artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Alpine Environment My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Alpine Environment
"You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Alpine Environment Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Alpine Environment
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Alpine Environment Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Alpine Environment
Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Alpine Environment Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Alpine Environment
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost "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) Alpine Environment Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Marriage is a rest period between romances. There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Alpine Environment
"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Alpine Environment Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Alpine Environment
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Alpine Environment "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Alpine Environment
"I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Alpine Environment Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Alpine Environment
