Science and Environment Links
Return to Main
 Link to our Web Page
 Up One Level
:: Europe :::: United Kingdom :::: England :::: Cornwall :::: Science and Environment ::

Science and Environment Links

Cornwall Air Quality Forum - Provides a forum for discussing topics relating to air quality.
Cornish Wildlife Mailing List - A group that discusses nature local conservation by e-mail.
Observatory for Cornwall Project - Charitable company formed by a number of local people with a common interest in astronomy who got together with the purpose of building an astronomical observatory. Background, supporters, contest, work schedule, directors, news, target location, and fundraising details.
West Cornwall Badger Group - Includes a diary, links and contact details.
Cornwall Wildlife Trust - Concerned with the conservation of local wildlife and wild places - site is updated at least monthly.
Wildlife Veterinary Investigation Centre - A wildlife veterinary centre set up to investigate disease and mortality in wild animals.
Wild Cornwall Magazine - Magazine produced by Cornwall Wildlife Trust . Archive of articles and editorial can be browsed by issue or searched.
Surfers Against Sewage - Environmental campaign group with a mission to rid the UK coastline of sewage. Reports on beaches, research papers and form for reporting health problems.
Cornwall Sustainable Energy Partnership - Over 50 organisations working together on sustainable initiatives. Lists members and aims of each task group.
Cornish Hedges - The Dry Stone Walling Association provide a specification for Cornish hedges.
Seaquest South-West - Dolphin, whale, turtle, shark and seal recording project run by the Cornwall and Devon Wildlife Trusts. Asks people to gather information and raises awareness.
Rag and Bone Recycling - Collects a range of materials for recycling. News of projects including beach clean ups, art from rubbish and what is done with what.
Nick LeBoutillier's Cornish Geology Website - The geology of South West Cornwall and the geology and mineralogy of South Crofty Mine.
Cornwall Moth Group - Events, gallery and recording projects. Information on publications and membership.
Cornwall's Waste Working Group - Consortium working towards zero waste in Cornwall with waste minimisation and recycling strategies. Members, articles and downloads.
Shore Life - A guide to seaweed, fish, birds, jelly fish, molluscs, cuttlefish and other wildlife to found on the shores in Cornwall. Includes advice on when and where to look.
Environmental Records Centre for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly - Local record centre for wildlife and geological information. Information on recording wildlife, public participation projects, workshops and downloads.
Cornish Hedge Group - Co-ordinated by Cornwall County Council and the Cornwall Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group (FWAG). Examines the importance to wildlife of ancient stone-faced hedges, and includes instruction for their protection and management, technical notes for operators and developers, legislation details, and links to related sites.
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 To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written. -- Jean Jacques Rousseau A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. -- Helen Rowland "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Science and Environment The child is the father of the man. -- William Wordsworth All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all other betrayals come. -- Cormac McCarthy Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares, assess randomi Science and Environment Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. - Isaac Asimov After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post. -- Philip Streifer, Superintendent We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. -- Buck Henry Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. -- Gail Godwin My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Science and Environment Everything has been figured out, except how to live. - Jean-Paul Sartre "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera. - James Stephens Science and Environment Men have become the tools of their tools. - Henry David Thoreau ( "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) If you can't convince them, confuse them. -- Harry S. Truman Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime. -- Alphonse Allais We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset Science and Environment What does not kill me makes me stronger. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. -- Roger Babson Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Science and Environment "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. -- Anonymous When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve. -- Francois Cavanna "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Science and Environment "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. -- Francis Bacon Remember your dreams. -- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Science and Environment Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides. -- Margaret Thatcher A witty saying proves nothing. - Voltaire Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do. -- Oscar Wilde 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 "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Science and Environment "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough." -- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them. -- Adlai Stevenson You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. -- George Bernard Shaw Science and Environment You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do. -- Olin Miller In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. -- André Maurois Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back. - Paul Erdos You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. -- Stanislaw J. Lec And gain is gain, however small. -- Robert Browning Science and Environment Live out of your imagination, not your history. -- Stephen Covey Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it. -- Alvin Toffler Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides. -- Margaret Thatcher Science and Environment Give me a museum and I'll fill it. -- Pablo Picasso Thought is action in rehearsal. -- Sigmund Freud It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang. -- Tom Robbins There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job. -- George Crane Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Science and Environment Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women? -- Virginia Woolf God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time. - Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Science and Environment Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first. -- Billy Sunday When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus. -- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed All you need is love. -- The Beatles, song title The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving. -- Russell Green For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!" -- John Greenleaf Whittier Science and Environment Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure. -- Anonymous There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and flattens the stomachs. -- Barbara Howar I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting. -- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Science and Environment Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. -- G. K. Chesterton "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough? - Niels Bohr Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire. -- Gen. George "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Science and Environment "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. -- William James Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. -- Anonymous Science and Environment God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time. - Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda cross-dressed as science. -- Linda Bowles, political columnist "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind. -- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera. - James Stephens Science and Environment "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool. -- Kelvin Throop I Science and Environment 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 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 For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me. -- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. -- Eddie Rickenbacker Science and Environment It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember. -- Eugene McCarthy He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. - H. H. Munro (Saki) It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably. -- Kant, Immanuel Science and Environment
Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |