Ladybrook Valley - Photos, description of natural features and biology, discussion of conservation concerns, and poetry on this small river valley extending from South Manchester to the Pennines.
Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
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-- Fran Lebowitz Science and Environment When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Science and Environment
Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau 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. Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Science and Environment The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Science and Environment
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 "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) "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 Science and Environment Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Science and Environment
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Science and Environment "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) 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 "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Science and Environment
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
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staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Science and Environment "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Science and Environment
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Science and Environment Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Science and Environment
"Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Science and Environment "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Science and Environment
If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Science and Environment "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Science and Environment
I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Science and Environment Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Science and Environment
"Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) 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 Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Science and Environment By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Science and Environment
Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Science and Environment Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Science and Environment
