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	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - DEFRA. The UK Government department tasked with issues such as the environment, rural development, the countryside, wildlife, animal welfare and sustainable development. Formerly MAFF, the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Foods.
	DEFRA - Rural Development - Rural Development portal from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). Provides information on topics such as farm diversification, regional development and the Rural Task Force.
	MAGIC - Multi-Agency Geographic Information for the Countryside brings together definitive rural designation boundaries and information about rural land-based schemes.
	DEFRA: Rural Affairs Forum for England - Meeting minutes and conference reports from the official national sounding board so that Ministers "have regular and direct contact with the main rural groups so that they know what is going on and what countryside people think".

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack. -- Laundry instructions on a shirt "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing. -- Bernard Baruch Rural Affairs When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve. -- Francois Cavanna "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress. -- Anonymous Rural Affairs Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. -- Ayn Rand "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. -- Oscar Wilde It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so. -- Will Rogers Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. -- Winston Churchill Rural Affairs "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. -- Albert Einstein Rural Affairs Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. -- Anon. "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) In the blithe days of honeymoon, With Kate's allurements smitten, I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon, And call'd her dearest kitten. But now my kitten's grown a cat, And cross like other wives. Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible. -- Mao Tse-tung Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Rural Affairs The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. -- Tom Clancy A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. -- Charles Evans Hughes In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop hung Rural Affairs "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. -- Abraham Lincoln Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. -- Grover Cleveland "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Rural Affairs "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. -- Pablo Picasso There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Rural Affairs Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword. -- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. -- Abraham Lincoln It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. -- Aldous Huxley The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons. -- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Rural Affairs "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the m Rural Affairs Never judge a book by its movie. -- J. W. Eagan It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. -- Mark Twain Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. -- Oscar W The society of women is the element of good manners. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect. -- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Rural Affairs Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted. -- Albert Einstein "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. -- Milton Friedman Rural Affairs "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of. -- Peter Ustinov Rural Affairs I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it. -- Groucho Marx "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Rural Affairs I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one more letter she'd have to remember. -- Shecky Greene There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. -- Flannery O'Connor Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. - H. G. Wells History is more or less bunk. -- Henry Ford Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress. -- Anonymous Rural Affairs "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains fa Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches. - the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Rural Affairs Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God. -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ign Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too. -- H. L. Mencken We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction. - General Douglas MacArthur Art and science have their meeting point in method. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Rural Affairs It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult. -- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based Rural Affairs Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did. -- Anonymous It's no credit to anyone to work to hard. -- Ed Howe I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education. -- Wilson Mizner "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used. -- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Rural Affairs "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -- Robert G. Ingersoll Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Rural Affairs Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny. -- George A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. -- Michel de Montaigne "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him. -- Elbert Hubbard Rural Affairs "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. -- Joan Crawford Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. -- John Stuart Mill Rural Affairs Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link |