Wild Ennerdale - A photographic diary of the life of Ennerdale Valley in West Cumbria. Includes details of forest management as well as the people who live, work or play in the valley.
"The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Ennerdale "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Ennerdale
When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Ennerdale blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Ennerdale
I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Ennerdale The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Ennerdale
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Ennerdale Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Ennerdale
Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Ennerdale The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Ennerdale
"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Ennerdale My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Ennerdale
blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) May you never leave your marriage alive. The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Ennerdale The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Ennerdale
They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Ennerdale Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Ennerdale
It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, 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 There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Ennerdale Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Ennerdale
"The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Ennerdale The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Ennerdale
Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Ennerdale You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Ennerdale
