River Dee Estuary Strategy - Official organisation helping to manage the estuary. Includes information about the area, their strategy, projects, and publications.
Wirral Barn Owl Trust - Charity aiming to conserve wild barn owl populations. Gives information about the barn owl, the activities of the trust, and how to become a member.
Wirral Environmental Network - Environmental umbrella group. Details of activities and events, hints for sustainable living, local recycling guide, and newsletters.
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Science and Environment "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Science and Environment
"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries 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 The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Science and Environment For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Science and Environment
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Science and Environment I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Science and Environment
Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Science and Environment This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac "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 Science and Environment
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Science and Environment "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Science and Environment
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Science and Environment I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Science and Environment
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Science and Environment I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Science and Environment
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Science and Environment "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Science and Environment
I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Science and Environment Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Science and Environment
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Science and Environment Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Science and Environment
I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Science and Environment Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Science and Environment
