Nature Conservation - Leeds City Council gateway page to Nature Reserves in the Leeds metropolitan area. Information on the sites, contact details and directions.
Forest of Leeds - Information on Leeds City Council initiative to enhance forest and wooded areas. Maps lead to descriptions of individual woods. Details of Forestry Services, and Tree Warden scheme.
Wise Up Leeds - Information about sustainability with news and links.
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Science and Environment "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Science and Environment
"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Science and Environment A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Science and Environment
The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Science and Environment "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje "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 Science and Environment
"We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Science and Environment Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Science and Environment
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Science and Environment Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) 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 Science and Environment
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra "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 "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Science and Environment "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) You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Science and Environment
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Science and Environment The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Science and Environment
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Science and Environment Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Science and Environment
The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards "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) Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Science and Environment We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Science and Environment
Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Science and Environment What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen 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 If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Science and Environment
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Science and Environment Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Science and Environment
