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Irish Moths and Butterflies - Includes a checklist for the Province, information on larval food plants and a guide to making a moth trap.
Northern Ireland Fungus Group - Features an atlas of fungi in the province, recording tips, information about various species and foray dates.
Ulster Wildlife Trust - Provides information about habitats, species, reserves, and projects being undertaken. Current news, events and contact detail are also given.
HabitasOnline - Website of the Ulster Museum Sciences Division. Features resources on the province's botany, zoology and geology. Topics covered include ground beetles, butterflies and moths, dragonflies, marine life, wild and garden flora, and rocks and fossils. Also hosts the web sites of Belfast Naturalist's Field Club and the Irish Naturalists' Journal.
Bat Detective - Describes Irish bat species and provides details of habitat, diet and ecology.
BBC Northern Ireland: Living World - Information about animals and habitats, from the makers of the TV series Our Living World. Includes facts and images for hundreds of species, plus programme details, features, events and contact details.
Forest Service - Introduces guided educational visits. Includes a map of sites with species and habitat details, and describes programmes and school activities.
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. -- W. Somerset Maugham You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. -- Al Capone Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. -- Josh Billings Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture. -- Aldous Huxley Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management. -- Senator Soaper Wildlife "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. -- John Wesley The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules. -- Elting E. Morison Wildlife "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. -- Charlie Chaplin If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. -- Lynda Barry "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. -- Aristotle Wildlife Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in those tiny toil 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 "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Wildlife "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them. - Samuel Palmer Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. -- George Santayana "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein Wildlife Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson. -- Vernon Law A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that. -- Shakespeare, William We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. -- Buck Henry Wildlife Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. -- Grover Cleveland The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. -- Abraham Lincoln We can do no great things; only small things with great love. -- Mother Teresa Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. -- Josh Billings Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves. -- Anonymous Wildlife "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. -- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Wildlife It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off! -- Douglas Jerold, 1858 If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question? -- Lily Tomlin For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect. -- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring. -- Alphonse Karr No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. -- Booker T. Washington Wildlife "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. -- Herbert Hoover Wildlife 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. The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise. -- Roger Simon Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition. -- Walter Prager The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. -- B. F. Skinner Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. -- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Wildlife "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. - Lucille S. Harper I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up. -- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Wildlife Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. -- Edgar Allan Poe Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible. -- Margaret Mead If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. -- Henry David Thoreau Wildlife Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love. -- French saying Silence is argument carried out by other means. - ErnestoCheGuevara The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it. -- John Stuart Mill Wildlife Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. -- George Santayana I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education. -- Wilson Mizner "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) To love another person is to help them love God. -- Søren Kierkegaard Soul meets soul on lovers lips. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley Wildlife Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture. -- Anatole France Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. -- Frank Zappa Wildlife Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. -- George Orwell I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge. -- Edward Chilton Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts. -- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Wildlife The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. -- Andy Warhol "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) What a difference there is between what we say and what we think. -- Racine Wildlife The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and the Life is the flower for which love is the honey. -- Victor Hugo "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) No one can earn a million dollars honestly. - William Jennings Bryan I don't feel good. -- Luther Burbank, dying words Wildlife "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. -- Chinese Proverb A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. -- St. Augustine Wildlife Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. -- Oscar Wilde The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. -- William James "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins. -- Heywood Brown Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. -- Albert Einstein Wildlife In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced. -- Helen Rowland Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire. -- William Yeats The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -- Niels Bohr Wildlife
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