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Swiss Wildlife Information Service - Organisation providing information on the fauna. Includes list of local species.
CSCF - Swiss Center of Cartography of the Fauna - Purpose of the center in Neuchâtel, presentation of available services and publications, e.g. "Fauna Helvetica". Includes lists of local species, redlist, and typography of habitats, maps. Detail charts mainly in German, French and Latin.
Swiss Ornithological Institute - Research institute covering topics from bird migration and ecology to population monitoring and applied studies for landscape management and conservation. In English only overview of research projects.
Swiss Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Programme (KARCH) - Official task force to promote, implement and coordinate efforts to conserve the native amphibian and reptile fauna. Maintains database of fauna survey. Site includes short checklist of amphians only.
Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd 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. "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. -- G. K. Chesterton Fauna "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. -- George Bernard Shaw Fauna "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) I hate work. That's why I got married. -- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say. -- Michael Winner There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. -- G. K. Chesterton Fauna A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. Robert Frost (1874-1963) "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it. -- Nick Mirov Fauna "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. -- Aldous Huxley "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Flowers are words which even a baby can understand. -- Arthur C. Coxe Fauna A witty saying proves nothing. - Voltaire All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. - Arthur Schopenhauer The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Fauna If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? - Will Rogers "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can. -- Frank W. Woolworth 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 Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. -- Ben Hecht Fauna What is the answer? In that case, what is the question? -- Gertrude Stein, dying words Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item. -- Anonymous "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Fauna A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one. -- Kin Hubbard Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God. -- Herbert Westren Turnbull When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that Uncl "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Fauna Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. -- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. - Sir Winston Churchill Fauna Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. -- Mark Twain Guide to understanding a net.addict's day: Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet. Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet. Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings. -- Anonymous I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste. -- David Bissonette Fauna Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference. -- Libbie Fudim We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us. -- Mme de Staël I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Fauna Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. - George Eliot If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong? -- Jenny Weber There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. -- George Santayana Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. -- Francis Bacon Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock Fauna "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Fauna Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction. -- John Cage The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing. -- Sigmund Freud blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw Fauna Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. -- Scott Adams "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Fauna "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous. -- Bill Moyers All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. -- Charlie Chaplin If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. -- George S. Patton, Jr. Fauna 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 A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. - Sir Winston Churchill The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision. -- Lynn Fauna I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive? -- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. - Sir Winston Churchill "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age. -- Jeanne Moreau Fauna Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. -- Albert Einstein To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. -- Francis Crawford Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them. -- Ralph N. Gerard Fauna Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen. -- P. J. O'Rourke The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. -- Harper Lee "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." 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