Westonbirt Arboretum - Details of the collection, including rare trees, champion trees, and visitor facilities at this national arboretum. Westonbirt, Glos.
Recycling Information from Get it Sorted - Information on recycling, composting, reuse and reduction of waste in the county. Details of The Get it Sorted campaign on waste reduction.
Gloucestershire Naturalists' Society - Natural history group that records all of the wildlife in the county. The society is membership based and organises lectures and field meetings. Includes a diary and news.
Barn Owl Centre of Gloucestershire - Dedicated to the welfare and conservation needs of owls and other birds of prey, whether their origin is wild or captive bred.
All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Science and Environment How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Science and Environment
Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "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) Science and Environment Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Science and Environment
"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Science and Environment "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Science and Environment
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Science and Environment There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Science and Environment
"To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Science and Environment Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Science and Environment
"I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) 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 Science and Environment I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Science and Environment
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Science and Environment If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman 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 Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
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The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Science and Environment He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Science and Environment
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Science and Environment When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "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 I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Science and Environment
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Science and Environment "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." Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Science and Environment
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, Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz 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 My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Science and Environment When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Science and Environment
