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Lake District Osprey Watch - For the first time in 150 years, wild ospreys have returned to nest in England, near Keswick. Diary, press, biography, and visitor information - from the Forestry Commission.
Mirehouse - An historic stately manor house situated close to Keswick, with a fine selection of period furniture, rare letters by Wordsworth and magnificant gardens. Tour of the house, gardens, estate, news and education.
Trotters World Of Animals - Home to hundreds of animals, including traditional farm favorites, endangered species, birds of prey and reptiles. Especially suitable for young children.
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(Daniel Clowes) Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. -- Dr. Karl Menninger Travel and Tourism Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour. -- G. K. Chesterton Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. -- Mother Teresa Travel and Tourism blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation. -- Latin Proverb Travel and Tourism I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. -- W. C. Fields There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? -- Robert Francis Kennedy Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. - Irving Kristol Travel and Tourism Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. -- Alfred Hitchcock You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there. -- Yogi Berra The limits of my language means the limits of my world. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. -- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism >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 Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. -- Harry S. Truman The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half. Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Travel and Tourism blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for themselves. -- F. Emerson Andrews "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. -- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable. -- Beaumont, Francis Travel and Tourism Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. -- John Barrymore - last words "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal. -- George H. Mead Travel and Tourism With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow. -- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. -- Igor Stravinsky Travel and Tourism I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by. -- Douglas Adams "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. 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Instead of throwing one's mai Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -- Don Stanford People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Travel and Tourism To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance - Oscar Wilde Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror. -- Byrd Baggett "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories. -- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. 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