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The Cave Hill Conservation Campaign - Voluntary group dedicated to the environment conservation of the Cave Hill for the benefit of the people of Belfast, Ireland and beyond.
Conservation Volunteers Northern Ireland - Links, contact details and volunteering opportunities.
Green Cycle Recycling Scheme - Recycling of plastic milk bottles back into milk bottles. Process developed by Linwoods.
Irish Peatland Conservation Council - Environmental campaigning group, with information on bogs, press releases, fundraising, education and contacts.
River Bann and Lough Neagh Association - Community-based group of boating enthusiasts, environmentalists, anglers, and naturalists who aim to preserve and promote the amenities of the Bann and Lough Neagh, their tributaries and associated waterways. Includes a code for watercraft users, events guide and contacts.
The Green Party in Northern Ireland - A non-sectarian party campaigning on environmental issues. Their site includes news, current campaigns, policy information, membership details, links and contact details, and humour.
Groundwork Northern Ireland - A not-for-profit organisation working for sustainable neighbourhood renewal through environmental regeneration in areas of high social and economic need.. Includes background and services information with details on current programmes.
He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise -- William Blake For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. -- Clifton Fadiman The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style. -- Fred Astaire "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Environment I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life. -- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking campaign "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Environment Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool. -- Kelvin Throop I The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. -- General George Patton Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Environment "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign. -- Mae West blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Environment I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive? -- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter. -- N. D. Stice Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Environment I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage. -- Will Rogers Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere. -- Anonymous If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. -- Chekhov Environment My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. - Socrates My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin. -- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. -- Horace Walpole Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars -- Les Brown Environment When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. - Oscar Wilde Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel. -- Boies Penrose, 1931 Environment "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. -- W. Somerset Maugham No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. -- Joseph Addison Environment It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed. They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position. -- John Hogan, Commonwealth I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox. -- Woody Allen When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Environment Ninety percent of everything is crap. -- Theodore Sturgeon I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. - Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. -- Epicurus Environment Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. -- Shane Leslie Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. -- Will Rogers "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Environment The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it. -- Anonymous 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 The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. -- Mark Russell Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea. -- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Environment "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask is a chance." -- Anon. Environment "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be. -- Grandma Moses May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball. -- Deborah Tan The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Environment "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) I worship the quicksand he walks in. - Art Buchwald If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. -- Marcus Aurelius Environment It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today? --Loesje Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. -- Buddha When women go wrong, men go right after them. -- Mae West The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing. -- Publilius Syrus The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. -- Andrew Brown Environment You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play. -- WARREN BEATTY If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. - Carl Sagan Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. -- George Santayana Environment A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it. -- Anonymous Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. - Karl Wallenda He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. - H. H. Munro (Saki) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. -- Beverly Sills Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as Environment If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. -- Joseph Addison Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. - Irving Kristol Environment "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. 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