Woodland Wildflowers Project - Developing community strategies for the introduction of wildflowers into the twelve Community Forests in England.
Nature on the Map - English Nature's interactive map of nature reserves, sites of special scientific interest (SSSI) and areas of semi-natural habitat. Contains news items, data updates and details of planned developments.
The Red Squirrel - Examines the status of the species. Includes an explanation of the difference between red and grey squirrels, distribution details, care and welfare instruction, and a school education pack.
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Wildlife The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Wildlife
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Wildlife I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Wildlife
"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Wildlife "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Wildlife
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Wildlife Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan 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 All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Wildlife
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Wildlife A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Wildlife
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Wildlife It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Wildlife
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Wildlife Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Wildlife
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cćsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Wildlife "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Wildlife
My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Wildlife 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) Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Wildlife
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Wildlife I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Wildlife
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Wildlife Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Wildlife
