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Science and Environment Links

	Greenlink Berkshire - Network of community groups committed to improving the environment, maintaining biological and economic diversity and increasing the wider understanding of quality of life issues within Berkshire.
	The Living Rainforest - Registered charity which aims to promote a sustainable future by providing education and research on the relationship between humanity, the world's rainforests and nature, and a visitor centre open year-round and features a tropical rainforest-inspired ecological garden. Located in Hampstead Norreys.
	Moor Copse Nature Reserve - Part of a Sulham and Tidmarsh Woods and Meadows Site of Special Scientific Interest, with its 70 acres comprising of a series of three wet woodland copses, a small meadow and a healthy chalk stream. Fauna list, surveys, history and photographs.
	Kennet Valley Countryside Project - Aims to protect and enhance the natural beauty of the Kennet Valley and to help people appreciate the countryside. Contact details and list of objectives.
	Environmental Trust for Berkshire - Non-profit organization that uses money donated by landfill operators and credits from landfill tax to fund projects in Berkshire. Project information and contact details.

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage. -- Jean Anouilh "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Science and Environment I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch. -- Gilda Radner Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. -- Charles Schultz "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Science and Environment Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. -- G. M. Trevelyan It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him. -- Sydney Smith "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) I shall return. -- General Douglas MacArthur Early to rise and early to bed. Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead. -- James Thurber Science and Environment Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used. -- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Science and Environment Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. -- Grace Hansen Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't remember what "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. -- Chinese Proverb A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. -- George Santayana Science and Environment If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. -- Schopenhauer Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them. -- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed. They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position. -- John Hogan, Commonwealth Science and Environment How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself. - Anais Nin Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. 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 longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. -- George Bernard Shaw 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 When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall looking frantic. -- Steven Wright It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they couldn't cha "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Science and Environment Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. -- G. K. Chesterton Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much. -- Zora Neale Hurston The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it. -- John Stuart Mill The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. -- Oscar Wilde For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. -- Clifton Fadiman Science and Environment I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again. -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show ...the fog is rising. -- Emily Dickinson, dying words In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Science and Environment "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage. -- Jean Anouilh "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) "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) Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. -- Jim Backus Science and Environment We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade. -- Caroline Norton "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software. -- Unknown author, Levitating T Science and Environment It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. -- Henry James "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth. -- Albert Einstein Science and Environment Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will. -- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. -- Oscar Wilde Science and Environment Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth. -- Benjamin Disraeli "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz If God does not exist, then everything is permitted. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Science and Environment >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory! -- General Douglas MacArthur Sir, I would rather be right than be President. -- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure He would make a lovely corpse. - Charles Dickens Science and Environment Tear open packet, unfold and use. -- Directions on moist towelette package Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. -- Edward H. Land Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can. -- Danny Kaye Everything that can be invented has been invented. - Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. -- Andr� Maurois Science and Environment Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Science and Environment A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. - Sir Winston Churchill The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Samuel Johnson Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. - Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity. -- Albert Einstein Science and Environment If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are... -- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the disg There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations. -- Fran�ois de La Rouchefoucauld Science and Environment You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. -- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. -- Josh Billings My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. -- John Stuart Mill Science and Environment The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life. -- "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." 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