Promote Life Project - Portmeirion Potteries response to the European Union's policy of protecting the environment. Includes objectives, reports, and contact information.
Staffordshire Wildlife Trust - Dedicated to protecting and enhancing the wildlife and wild places of the county. Includes background information, places to visit, activities for children, opportunities to volunteer, and details of current projects.
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Science and Environment The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Science and Environment
I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Science and Environment "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons May you never leave your marriage alive. Science and Environment
I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion 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 "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Science and Environment "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Science and Environment
Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France 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 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 Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Science and Environment
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Science and Environment Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Science and Environment
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Science and Environment If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Science and Environment
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Science and Environment May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Science and Environment
Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous 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 If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Science and Environment
The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Science and Environment Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Science and Environment
Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Science and Environment 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 We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Science and Environment
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Science and Environment "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) In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Science and Environment
