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	Cumbria Wildlife Trust - An organisation whose aims are to protect the wildlife of Cumbria. Today it has about 4000 members and manages around 40 nature reserves.
	Cumbria Biodiversity Partnership - A partnership involving local people, landowners, voluntary organisations, industry, government agencies and local authorities. The aims are to ensure that the great variety of wildlife in Cumbria is sustained and, where possible, enhanced.
	Cumbria RIGS Group - Cumbrian part of a nationally conceived scheme for the conservation of important geological and geomorphological sites.
	Arcadian Archives - Garden magazine covering a wide range of topics but with particular interest in contemporary horticultural writing. Includes much plant advice and descriptions of many gardens in Cumbria. From Janet Queen and Jim Waugh.
	Nature Notes from Eden and the Lake District - Weekly nature diary from north Cumbria, Eden Valley and the Lake District.
	Cumbria Apple Project - A report based on a survey of apple orchards in Cumbria, UK
	Cumbria County Council's Corporate Environment Unit - A wealth of information on Cumbria's environment, sustainable development, sustainability indicators, Local Agenda 21 and environmental monitoring, reporting, news, events and policy.
	The Limestone Pavements Action Group - Campaigns to protect limestone pavement; works to improve the management of limestone pavement habitat in the UK. INcludes information about their creation and natural history.
	Lake District Tourism and Conservation Partnership - Their role is to raise much needed funds for conservation projects and to raise awarenss amongst visitors of the need to protect the fragile environment of the Lake District.
	The River Kent - A brief guide by The Environment Agency, to the River Kent, which starts its journey from the hills surrounding Kentmere, then flows for a distance of only 20 miles before entering the sea at the northern end of Morecambe Bay.
	Local Agenda 21 for Eden District of Cumbria - Promoting a sustainable lifestyle with less pollution from transport and industry, waste recycling, education, health and information for the public. Definition of LA21, news and projects.
	Cumbria Waste Management Environment Trust - The use of Landfill Tax to provide grant aid to Cumbrian Community projects. About the Trust, the Landfill Tax Grant Scheme, and some project examples.
	CryptoCumbria - Animal Mysteries in Cumbria. - The website for those with an interest in animal mysteries, and mystery animals, in Cumbria.
	South Lakeland Recycling - Details of the blue box kerbside recycling scheme run by South Lakeland District Council.
	Talking Rubbish - Considers the collection, treatment and disposal of municipal waste but describes aspects of the other types of waste where relevant. Proposals and consultation documents for the future of waste disposal in Cumbria.
	Robin Rigg Proposed Offshore Wind Farm - Documents and maps describing the proposed 60 turbine 200 MW offshore wind farm, in the Solway Firth.
	Solway Firth Partnership - A coastal management partnership that embodies a voluntary and co-operative approach to management. Strategy, maps, photos, news and research information.
	Solway Rural Initiative - For information on wildlife, heritage, tourism and landscape in and around the Solway coast and plain.
	Kirkby Thore Traffic Steering Group - Village campaign for a road bypass on the A66.
	A590 Now Campaign - The A590 Low/High Newton bypass campaign concerning the Lakeland, Ulverston and Furness areas of Cumbria. Vote for a bypass.

Assassins! -- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you. -- Peter De Vries "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. - Frank Lloyd Wright Science and Environment 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 Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition. -- Jacques Barzun Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. -- Red Buttons Science and Environment Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The- Box. -- Wil Shriner Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory. -- Albert Schweitzer "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Man and wife make one fool. He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own. -- Aesop Science and Environment Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. -- Helen Keller Science and Environment There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. -- Oscar Wilde "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. 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 Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. -- Ayn Rand Science and Environment Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. -- Jeff Raskin An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about. -- Hen Science and Environment Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right. -- Jerry Garcia This isn't right, this isn't even wrong. - Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. -- Oscar Wilde Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman. -- Herbert Spencer He that would have the fruit must climb the tree. -- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Science and Environment "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. -- Charles Schultz "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Science and Environment In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats. -- English Proverb UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Politics have no relation to morals. -- Niccolo Machiavelli Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. -- Thornton Wilder Science and Environment Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God. -- Herbert Westren Turnbull "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. -- General Omar Bradley Science and Environment Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. -- John Barrymore - last words If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible. -- James McNeill Whistler "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child. -- Anne Sullivan Science and Environment Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. -- Oscar Wilde A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one. -- Kin Hubbard "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exup�ry) Science and Environment Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The- Box. -- Wil Shriner There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's age. -- Modern Maturity 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 The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the west. -- Unknown history student "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Science and Environment Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare. -- Joan Collins One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all, give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of sexual Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick Science and Environment I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. - A. J. Liebling Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grac When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped. -- Marcel Achard The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. -- W. Somerset Maugham Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. -- Virginia Woolf Science and Environment "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes your wife. -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight. -- George Gobel Science and Environment Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried. -- G. K. Chesterton The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong. -- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap. -- Cynthia H Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. -- Irwin Corey Science and Environment Grove giveth and Gates taketh away. - Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep up with software demands "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Now is the time for all good men to come to. -- Walt Kelly Science and Environment What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -- Crow A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you. -- Adlai Stevenson All television is children's television. -- Richard P. Adler A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity. -- Albert Einstein blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Science and Environment It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it. -- Fran�ois de La Rouchefoucauld It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear. -- Henry David Thoreau Someday is not a day of the week. -- Anon. Science and Environment "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) I would have made a good Pope. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. -- Henry David Thoreau The only reward of virtue is virtue. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Science and Environment Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. - Isaac Asimov Life is the flower for which love is the honey. -- Victor Hugo A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul. -- George Bernard Shaw 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 |