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Dartmoor On-line - The official Dartmoor Website. An award winning site offering 100's of pages of information on Dartmoor.

Dartmoor the Wildest Land - A few aspects of Dartmoor including legends, letterboxing and letterbox clues.

Skaigh Stables - Horse riding vacation and holiday center on Dartmoor.

Walking Dartmoor - Web site based on Dartmoor offering walks and history.

Widecombe-in-the-Moor - Widecombe past, present and future, intended for residents, visitors and those interested in this well-known Dartmoor village.

Wonderful Dartmoor and West Devon - Compendium of information for tourist, local, historian, and researcher alike, with a distinctive rural flavour of Dartmoor and West Devon.

Bonnaford Activity and Field Study Centre - Residential activity and field study centre located on Dartmoor. It is suited to primary and prep school teachers and pupils who take part in residential school visits.

Bonehill Craft Sudio - Wide variety of art and craft courses at Widecombe-in-the-Moor. The studio is set in a location overlooking Widecombe valley and also offers bed and breakfast accommodation.

Corboy web design and build service. - Includes services offered and local information.

The Lustleigh Society - The picturesque village of Lustleigh is on the south-eastern edge of the park. The Society's main aim is to study and promote an interest in the History, Archaeology and Natural History of Lustleigh and its environs.

Moor Trees - Encourages areas of the moor to return to forest wilderness. Involves the local community and the wider community in wilding, ecosystems, land management and forest regeneration.

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If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t 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 Dartmoor They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist--- -- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down. -- Russell Baker Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow aint as bad as it seems. -- Billy Joel Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. -- Friedrich Nietzsche Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations. -- Sigmund Freud Dartmoor War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel. -- Niccolo Machiavelli "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you. -- Mortimer J. Adler Dartmoor Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, 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 Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted. -- Albert Einstein Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea. -- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Dartmoor That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach. -- Aldous Huxley He who hesitates is a damned fool. - Mae West There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson Dartmoor There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot. -- Steven Wright "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. -- Arthur Schoperhauer Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugl Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. -- Helen Keller Dartmoor Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever sea "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all. -- Rodney Dangerfield Dartmoor Journalism is merely history's first draft. -- Geoffrey C. Ward The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. -- Socrates "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as Dartmoor NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. -- Henry Kissinger The greatest homage to truth is to use it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Dartmoor When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. -- Anatole France While we are postponing, life speeds by. - Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it. -- Max Frisch The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. -- William James We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. -- Tom Robbins Dartmoor Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward. -- Patricia Sampson May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Dartmoor Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. - Sir Winston Churchill Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies. - Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. 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 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 Dartmoor He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. - H. H. Munro (Saki) Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. -- Albert Einstein "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Dartmoor In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. -- Albert Einstein "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. -- W. Somerset Maugham If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. - Mario Andretti Health food makes me sick. -- Calvin Trillin Dartmoor "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it. -- Anonymous "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Dartmoor 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 As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. -- Albert Einstein Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. -- French Proverb Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. -- Helen Keller Dartmoor A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water. -- Sidney Goff If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be. -- Richard Mitchell, from Thought is action in rehearsal. -- Sigmund Freud Dartmoor Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. -- Wernher Von Braun "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good taste in men! -- Wedding Toast Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Napoleon Bonaparte We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. -- Aesop Dartmoor If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do. --Don Galer You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist. -- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Dartmoor In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued. -- Helen Rowland "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. -- Thomas Jefferson No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in. -- Anon. Dartmoor Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. -- Thomas Carruthers And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make. -- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Dartmoor
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