Somerset Levels and Moors Project - Somerset County Council and partners promoting the Levels and Moors. Provides an introduction to the wetlands and the main issues they face, past and present projects, organisational structure and reports of the project group.
Cam Valley Wildlife Group - An independent volunteer-run wildlife organisation based around Midsomer Norton and Radstock.
Goblin Coombe Environment Centre - Report on Millennium Snapshot project, details of educational activities and camping facilities.
Cheddar Valley Railway Walk Society - Objectives and membership details of the society which manages nature reserve located on a 10 mile length of the old 'Strawberry Line'.
Somerset Levels and Moors LEADER+ - European Union funded community initiative supporting local people in developing and testing new types of sustainable rural development. Provides details of projects and grants.
Somerset Wildlife Trust - Aims to conserve and enhance the wildlife and natural environment of the county. News, events and contact details for local information.
A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Science and Environment Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Science and Environment
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Science and Environment Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
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After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Science and Environment "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Science and Environment
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 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 You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Science and Environment "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Science and Environment
Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Science and Environment Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Science and Environment
Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Science and Environment Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Science and Environment
I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Science and Environment "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Science and Environment
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Science and Environment This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "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) The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Science and Environment
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Science and Environment "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Science and Environment
All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Science and Environment I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Science and Environment
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Science and Environment I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Science and Environment
