EUROPARC Federation - Pan-European organisation whose prime purpose is to support and encourage the complete spectrum of major protected areas in Europe.
PAN Parks - The Protected Area Network of Parks. The WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) initiative to improve nature conservation through sustainable tourism development in the protected areas of Europe.
In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Parks Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Parks
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Parks 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 The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Parks
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin 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 When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West 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 Parks blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Parks
"I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Parks "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Parks
All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Parks "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Parks
"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) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Parks To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Parks
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Parks There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Parks
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Parks The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Parks
However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Parks Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Parks
Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Parks Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Parks
There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire 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 Parks "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Parks
