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Consult-Eco - Environmental information site for home and study. Includes rECOrd - Biodiversity Information System page.

Cheshire Conservation Forum - Discussion group for conservationists and ecologists issues.

Entomology - About moths, sawflies, and other invertebrates in Cheshire and the northwest of England.

Countdown - Part of the this programme, the Biodiversity Audit and Local Biodiversity Action Plan Process for the Cheshire region.

Mid Cheshire Barn Owl Conservation Group - The barn owl in in decline throughout Great Britain and Mid Cheshire Barn Owl Conservation Group intends to reverse this trend in Mid Cheshire. Report sightings, contact the group and find out what you can do to help.

Greencheshire - Environmental resource site for the Cheshire area, includes educational resources, a conservation discussion forum and links to local groups.

Cheshire County Council - Home page of the Cheshire County Council Environment Department.

Northwich Community Forest - Discover how people and nature have transformed huge areas of derelict industrial land creating a great place to visit.

Woolston Eyes Reserve - Birdwatching at Woolston Eyes, Warrington, Cheshire, England

Crewe and Nantwich Sustainability Alliance - Addresses agenda 21 issues in this area. Events. newsletter and general information.

SECOS - South East Cheshire Ornithological Society.

CCLRC - Daresbury Laboratory - Website for the Daresbury Laboratory.

Wirral and Cheshire Badger Group - Badger information and monitoring in the Wirral and Cheshire area.

Cheshire Amphibians - The county site for amphibian and pond enthusiasts.

Knutsford Ornithology - The Birds and Birders of Knutsford North-west England.

Friends of Caldy Nature Park - This Group is very active in working with Chester City Council to develop and maintain Caldy park. There is an established pattern of regular events in the valley for children and adults.

Cheshire Renewable Energy Initiative - Supporting the belief that a move to renewable energy in the County has a major role to reduce our CO2 production.

The North Cheshire Barn Owl Group - Inviting new members to join and help Barn Owls in the North Cheshire Area.

Sustainable Cheshire Forum - Voluntary group of a range of public, private and community organisations which came together in 1996 to develop Cheshire's Local Agenda 21 Strategy.

Cheshire and Wirral Ornithological Society - News, events, forum, mystery photo, photo gallery, rarities list, site guides, and surveys.

Chester Zoo - The zoo is run by the North of England Zoological Society.

Cheshire Wildlife Trust - Organisation managing nature reserves and promoting wildlife conservation in the area. News, projects, details of nature reserves, educational services and contact details.

"I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. - A. J. Liebling A friend is a gift you give yourself. -- Robert Louis Stevenson "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it. -- W.S. Gilbert Science and Environment "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels. -- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Science and Environment "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Science and Environment "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. -- Albert Einstein Science and Environment 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 Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. - George Burns "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart He who has lost honor can lose nothing more. -- Publilius Syrus Science and Environment Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse tha Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The- Box. -- Wil Shriner Science and Environment Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. -- Charles Caleb Colton Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. -- Vince Lombardi "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Science and Environment "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. -- George Saunders - last words "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Science and Environment I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals... -- G. K. Chesterton There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. -- George Santayana To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up. -- Ogden Nash If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Science and Environment I would have made a good Pope. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen. -- Richard Rosen It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn' Science and Environment "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. -- Seneca Science and Environment I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. -- Woody Allen "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Science and Environment Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments. -- Rose Kennedy In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating, stealing, "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Every flower must grow through dirt. -- Anonymous Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life. --Loesje Science and Environment Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. -- Samuel Johnson "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Science and Environment Politics have no relation to morals. -- Niccolo Machiavelli For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. -- Virginia Woolf The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. -- B. F. Skinner "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Science and Environment The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. -- Walt Disney The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Science and Environment "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour. -- G. K. Chesterton Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails. -- Clarence Darrow Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it. -- Theodore Roosevelt I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat. -- Michael McShane Science and Environment I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability. -- Oscar Wilde You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald spot. -- Elayne Boosler Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. -- John Steinbeck Science and Environment Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried. -- G. K. Chesterton I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive? -- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald spot. -- Elayne Boosler blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee. -- Anonymous Science and Environment If a man does his best, what else is there? - General George S. Patton As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. -- Mignon McLaughlin Science and Environment There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities. -- Thomas Jefferson Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny. -- George It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today? --Loesje A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. -- H. L. Mencken Science and Environment Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. -- Woody Allen Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... -- Anonymous Science and Environment
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