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West Devon Environmental Network. - An ambitious organisation that manages a range of social, economic and environmental projects in the region and abroad. Listing general information, current projects and archive materials.
The Residents of Steward Hamlet - Group protesting about the proposed development in Steward Wood, near Moretonhampstead, Devon, England.
Campaign Against Nuclear Storage and Radiation - CANSAR is a group dedicated to addressing the threats to the people of Plymouth, and South East Cornwall from nuclear radiation and pollution by the operations carried out at the Devonport Royal Dockyard by the MoD and DML.
Devon Community Recycling Network - The Devon Community Recycling Network supports, informs and represents all those in the community working on recycling, waste minimisation and community solutions to sustainable waste management.
Paignton Zoo Environmental Park - Registered education and scientific charity dedicated to conserving global wildlife heritage.
Devon Badger Watch - Information about, and live streaming video of, badgers. Where to see wild badgers.
Fowlescombe Farm - Mmixed farm near Ugborough in the South Hams, 2 miles south of Dartmoor.
South Hams Against Rural Destruction - A local action group intent on halting the proposed massive housing developments which will destroy the beauty and peace of the South Hams forever.
Devon Wildlife Trust - Provides information about the organisation, its activities including events, news, projects, places to visit and species found in the region.
Otter Valley Association - A registered charity looking after the environment of the Otter Valley. The association organises walks around the Otter Valley, these are detailed in the diary section.
South West Water - Water and waste water services for the West Country. Details on the Clean Sweep programme, customer and corporate information.
The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness! -- Mark Russell The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. -- Andy Warhol Flowers are words which even a baby can understand. -- Arthur C. Coxe If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. -- H. L. Mencken Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice. -- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Science and Environment blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue. -- Hermione Gingold Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult. -- Charlotte Whitton Science and Environment He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. - Sir Winston Churchill "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. -- Michael Leunig Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the second, "For my best friend." -- Anonymous A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. Robert Frost (1874-1963) Science and Environment Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions. -- John Randolph There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network. -- Guy Almes 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 Science and Environment 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 Prejudice is the child of ignorance. -- William Hazlitt Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. -- Katharine Hepburn "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. - Helen Rowland Science and Environment Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it. -- Nick Mirov He who hesitates is a damned fool. - Mae West "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Science and Environment The west wasn't won on salad. -- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently. -- Chinese Proverb While we are postponing, life speeds by. - Seneca (3BC - 65AD) 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 "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Science and Environment Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. - Mark Twain Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. -- Rita Rudner Science and Environment I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age. -- Henry Kissinger You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it. -- W.S. Gilbert I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. - Thomas Jefferson A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one. -- Mae West Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained. -- John Powell Science and Environment The average person thinks he isn't. - Father Larry Lorenzoni The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office. -- Robert Frost The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity. -- Ambrose Bierce Science and Environment One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. -- Virginia Woolf If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. -- George Santayana Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword. -- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Science and Environment Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions. -- John Randolph "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Science and Environment And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery 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 People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get what they want. -- David Mamet One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. -- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Science and Environment That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny. -- Gloria Vanderbilt The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. -- Mark Twain Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? -- François de La Rouch Science and Environment Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded. -- Virginia Woolf "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up. -- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe. -- Jackie Mason In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent... -- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported in a contemporary "American Scholar" Science and Environment Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. -- Abraham Lincoln Laywers, I suppose, were children once. -- Charles Lamb If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. -- Abraham Lincoln Science and Environment "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? -- Abraham Lincoln "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Science and Environment Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway. -- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting the generations to come. -- Montesquieu Science and Environment Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too. -- Anonymous When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Value your words. Each one may be the last. -- Stanislaw J. Lec He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. - H. H. Munro (Saki) Science and Environment I don't feel good. -- Luther Burbank, dying words We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent. -- Anatole France All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all other betrayals come. -- Cormac McCarthy Science and Environment "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does. -- Groucho Marx "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) 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 Science and Environment Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. -- Eddie Rickenbacker In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! "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) Science and Environment
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