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Turning the Tide: On the Coast of Durham - After suffering from 100 years of waste tipping by the coal industry, the coastline of County Durham had a run-down and neglected image. Now, plans are in place to restore the coastline to its former beauty.
Durham Wildlife Trust - Aims to conserve wildlife and to promote conservation within the County . Offers information on nature reserves, species, conservation and education programme .
Durham RSPB - Local members' group of this wildlife conservation charity . Includes information about the group, details of indoor programme and field meetings, extracts from newsletters and contact details .
The Butterflies of Northumberland and County Durham - A review of insect life in the region including dragonflies, moths, and butterflies. Includes photographs, a range of information on individual species, and links to related resources.
Durham Bat Group - Reports and schedule of events. Includes a range of information on the various local species, bat sounds, detectors and lamps, and links to related resources .
National Nature Reserves - Provides links to the reserves in the County. Includes commentaries and photographs .
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. -- Anonymous I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat. -- Michael McShane If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov We are the echo of the future. -- W. S. Merwin America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. -- Arnold Toynbee Science and Environment Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. -- Thomas Jones Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep. -- Albert Camus "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Science and Environment Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Napoleon Bonaparte "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone. -- Anthony Burgess A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water. -- Sidney Goff If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us. -- Francis Bacon Science and Environment It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned. -- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you." -- Erich Fromm I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. -- Woody Allen Science and Environment They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to run his, either. -- Anonymous Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure. -- Anonymous There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot. -- Steven Wright Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. -- Abraham Lincoln It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. -- Abraham Lincoln Science and Environment Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Science and Environment "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up. -- Anon "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. -- Rebecca West, Science and Environment Change before you have to. -- Jack Welch Luck is the residue of design. - Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind. -- James Graham Science and Environment I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. -- W. C. Fields I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat. -- Michael McShane "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask is a chance." -- Anon. "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Science and Environment Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter. -- Cecilia Egan Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. -- Oscar Wilde "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Science and Environment I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. -- Virginia Woolf A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it. -- Anonymous "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. -- Aldous Huxley Science and Environment "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at. -- Lyn Karol Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with? -- Rita Rudner Science and Environment "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. -- Benjamin Disraeli Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. -- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Does anal retentive have a hyphen? -- Seen on a t-shirt Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. -- James Stephens Science and Environment If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us. -- Francis Bacon A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. - Helen Rowland "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Science and Environment Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. -- Bertrand Russell "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. -- Socrates When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus. -- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you. -- Satchel Paige Science and Environment blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's exciting to have a real crisis on your hands. -- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. -- Clarence Darrow Science and Environment "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. -- Helen Rowland "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Science and Environment There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments. -- Rose Kennedy Science and Environment "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. -- Albert Einstein "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) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist. -- Thomas Carlyle Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. -- Thomas Dewar Science and Environment It's no credit to anyone to work to hard. -- Ed Howe Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost. -- Russell Baker Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. -- John Barrymore - last words Science and Environment I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. -- Albert Einstein "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Who, being loved, is poor? -- Oscar Wilde It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being. -- Benjamin Disraeli If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed. -- Beau Brummel Science and Environment "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. -- George Orwell "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Science and Environment
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