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Kemerton Conservation Trust - A charitable trust promoting the conservation and preservation natural and man made beauty through countryside stewardship in the Worcestershire, Gloucestershire and Herefordshire area.
Peak District National Park Authority - Features a learning zone and visitor information.
English Nature - The statutory service responsible for looking after the wild plants, animals, biodiversity, and natural features of England. Includes details of projects, programmes and publications, virtual tours of nature reserves, and volunteer information.
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Men have become the tools of their tools. -- Henry David Thoreau A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. -- Edward Abbey You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. -- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth. -- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Science and Environment "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. -- Aldous Huxley Science and Environment Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice. -- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an inquest. -- H. L. Mencken "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice. -- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn 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 Science and Environment Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult. -- Charlotte Whitton In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King Jr. MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Science and Environment Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. -- George Orwell The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. -- George Bernard Shaw 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 "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Science and Environment It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. -- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally desparate to get out. -- Di Peatlins Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976. -- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Science and Environment "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 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 Marriage is a rest period between romances. Science and Environment He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke. -- Terry Cohen I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it. - John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization. -- George Clemenceau Science and Environment When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home. -- Betty Bender "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. - Sir Winston Churchill "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up. -- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Science and Environment "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. -- Andre Gide My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character. -- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Science and Environment Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing. -- Bernard Baruch "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I regret that I have but one life to give for my country. -- Nathan Hale A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. -- Christopher Morley Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. -- Buddha Science and Environment Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. -- Robert Frost "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Science and Environment Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. -- Buddha See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails? -- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo 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 Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. -- Stephen Leacock "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 I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Indeed, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all. -- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Science and Environment I used to be Snow White, but I drifted. -- Mae West Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone. -- Anthony Burgess I hate women because they always know where things are. -- James Thurber I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. -- Groucho Marx blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Science and Environment Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. -- Gandhi One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. -- Oscar Wilde Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage. -- Ambrose Bierce Science and Environment "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. -- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. - Abraham Lincoln "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein Science and Environment I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate. -- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Sir, I would rather be right than be President. -- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what may Science and Environment If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers? -- Calvin Trillin "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 No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near. - Andrew Marvell Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation. --Anon. Science and Environment The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely. -- T. S. Eliot I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. -- Shirley Temple Black "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Science and Environment The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. - Lucille S. Harper "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. - Niels Bohr And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Science and Environment My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. - Socrates Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children. -- Libby Gelman-Waxner A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude. -- Oscar Wilde Science and Environment
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