Terry Green's Home Page - Promoting practical conservation and environmental action in the Denby Dale Parish. Reports and pictures of local projects, with contact details.
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The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Science and Environment No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Science and Environment
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller 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 Science and Environment When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Science and Environment
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Science and Environment Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Science and Environment
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Science and Environment The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Science and Environment
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone 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 The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Science and Environment Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Science and Environment
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa 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) Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Science and Environment If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Science and Environment
What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Science and Environment "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Science and Environment
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Science and Environment Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Science and Environment
Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Science and Environment Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Science and Environment
"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Science and Environment If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Science and Environment
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Science and Environment I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur 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 "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Science and Environment
