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Gilwell Park Campsite - Owned by the UK Scout Association. It offers camping, indoor accommodation and activities to Scouts, Guides and members of other youth organisations.
Epping Map Project - A community project exploring the history and wildlife of the town. Covers Epping from Saxon to modern, including schools, buildings, religion, agriculture and entertainment. Wildlife walks, events.
Epping Forest Hedgehog Rescue - Dedicated to helping Hedgehogs, Helpline with advice on caring and encouraging Hedgehogs in the wild and garden, operates a 24 hr Rescue service. Includes description of services and contact details.
Copped Hall Trust - Seeks to restore what is at present the burnt out shell of a fine Georgian mansion. Details of the trust, history, education and future.
Epping Forest Conservation Volunteers - Actively involved in the conservation and management of Epping Forest. Tasks, newsletter, archives and photographs.
"Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Napoleon Bonaparte Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies. -- Groucho Marx I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Society and Culture Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it. -- Anonymous As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. -- Oscar Wilde A man in the house is worth two in the street. -- Mae West Society and Culture I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. - Frank Lloyd Wright Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword. -- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. -- George Bernard Shaw 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 Society and Culture For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. -- Clifton Fadiman I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. -- Noel Coward You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it. -- W.S. Gilbert Society and Culture First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. - Mahatma Gandhi "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust. -- Nanette Newman, British actress "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Society and Culture Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction. -- John Cage I drink no more than a sponge. -- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first. -- Cesare Pavese Society and Culture 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 Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. -- Pablo Picasso I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top. -- English Professor, Ohio University "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. --Malcolm X Society and Culture "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) "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) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. -- Helen Keller Society and Culture As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead. -- Andre Norton Study men, not historians. -- Harry Truman He that would have the fruit must climb the tree. -- Thomas Fuller, M.D. The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it. - George Bernard Shaw There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. -- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Society and Culture Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained. -- John Powell "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life. -- Henry Ford Society and Culture Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing. -- Georges Danton, to his executioner To be able to say how much love, is love but little. -- Petrarch Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality. -- Theodor Reik Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares, assess randomi Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. -- Wernher Von Braun Society and Culture "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Politics have no relation to morals. -- Niccolo Machiavelli Society and Culture I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. -- Anonymous Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you r Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. -- Mark Twain Criticism is prejudice made plausible. - Henry Louis Mencken Society and Culture "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead. -- Euripides cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that. -- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Society and Culture There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry. -- George Armstrong Custer "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. - George Bernard Shaw Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms with "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Society and Culture "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. -- Lord Byron Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree. -- Oscar Wilde Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire. -- William Yeats In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. -- Paul Dirac Society and Culture During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. -- Soren Kierkegaard 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 "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Society and Culture If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question? -- Lily Tomlin "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's age. -- Modern Maturity Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. -- ee cummings Society and Culture Spinster: A bachelor's wife. He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job. -- Anonymous "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Society and Culture 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, "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart 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 "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) The greatest homage to truth is to use it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) In the end, everything is a gag. - Charlie Chaplin Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. -- Paulo Freire Society and Culture
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