English Nature - North West Nature Reserves - The statutory service responsible for looking after England's variety of wild plants and animals - the country's biodiversity - and its natural features.
Northwest Food Alliance - set up to improve the agri-food and drink industry in the region by 2005.
Eden Conservation - Eden Conservation provide countryside contracting and management for national park authorities and councils. Based in cumbria.
"You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Science and Environment Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Science and Environment
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Science and Environment Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Science and Environment
There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Science and Environment There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Science and Environment
"To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Science and Environment "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 Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Science and Environment
Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Science and Environment Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Science and Environment
Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Science and Environment Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Science and Environment
blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Science and Environment "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Science and Environment
Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Science and Environment Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Science and Environment
"Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Science and Environment Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Science and Environment
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Science and Environment 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Science and Environment
Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Science and Environment There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Science and Environment
