English Nature - West Midlands 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.
Widlife Up The Cut - Photos and information of wildlife found on canals, including butterflies, moths and birds.
West Midlands Moth Group - Part of the West Midlands Branch of Butterfly Conservation and incorporating Worcestershire and Herefordshire Moth Groups. Includes records and pictures.
Gulls in the West Midlands Region - Provides data and images relating to gulls in area, including species overview, breeding information, and rare-species sightings.
Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Science and Environment Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Science and Environment
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Science and Environment Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Science and Environment
Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Science and Environment Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Science and Environment
Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar "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 "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Science and Environment People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Science and Environment
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Science and Environment Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Science and Environment
.. 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 Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, 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) "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Science and Environment
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Science and Environment "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Science and Environment
"The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Science and Environment "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Science and Environment
"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Science and Environment We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Science and Environment
A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Science and Environment Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Science and Environment
"Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Science and Environment The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Science and Environment
