The Friends of Bramcote Ridge - The web site of a volunteer local community action group, based in Bramcote. Interactive site with information on the group and the land that they look after which includes a diverse range of plants and animals found there.
Greenwood Community Forest - Scheme to create well-wooded landscapes and green spaces in West Nottinghamshire. Explanation of the project, guide to recreational use, including specific country walks, publications and contact details.
Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust - Aims to protect wild animals and places, and to educate people about the impact their decisions have on nature. Includes an events calendar, maps and fact sheets about reserves, and contact details.
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Science and Environment "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Science and Environment
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Science and Environment In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Science and Environment
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln "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 Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Science and Environment
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Science and Environment Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Science and Environment
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Science and Environment I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Science and Environment
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Science and Environment When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Science and Environment
"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Science and Environment Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Science and Environment
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Science and Environment Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb 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 Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Science and Environment
Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Science and Environment Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Science and Environment
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Science and Environment The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Science and Environment
I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Science and Environment "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Science and Environment
