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Botanic Gardens Conservation International - An international clearing house mechanism for botanic gardens, based in Surrey.
Arboricultural Information Exchange. - The AIE site has news, links and collections of resources for arboriculture.
Native Woodlands - An educational site about woodlands and why native trees are so important to our ecology, of interest to young and old.
Economic Botany at Kew - A useful set of web links to research, information, collections and educations sites. Based at the RBG Kew website.
Wye College National Fruit Collections - The UK National Fruit Collection maintains the genetic stock of cultivated top and bush fruit.
HDRA - Heritage Seed Library - The Heritage Seed Library aims to conserve as much biodiversity as it can and make as many varieties of vegetables available as possible.
Top Trees UK - Register of Notable Trees - Free searchable register of notable UK trees with photo galleries.
Hortips - A collection of links and information of use to the commercial crops grower.
National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens - Organises and coordinates the conservation and preservation of plants in national collections. Information on collections, local groups, news and events.
Horticulture Research International - Principal UK organisation tasked with carrying out horticultural research and development (R&D) and transferring the results to industry. Site provides details of research across horticultural sectors.
Frontpage for Trees - An informational resource for urban and garden trees, including details of fungi and mycorhizza.
People and Plants Online - The People and Plants Initiative, involving WWF, UNESCO, and Kew Gardens, working on applied research projects, community workshops, exchanges and training courses with young ethnobotanists.
Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one. -- Fredrich Halm The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere. -- Anonymous "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Horticulture 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 The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. -- Helen Hayes Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. -- Ovid Horticulture With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow. -- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms with Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. -- Oscar Wilde I didn't accept it. I received it. -- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Horticulture Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. -- Mark Twain Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. -- Thomas Jones Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar Gracian Horticulture Faith is believing what you know ain't so. -- Mark Twain "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software. -- Arthur C. Clarke "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Horticulture In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person must be fired. -- Conway's Law Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman. -- Herbert Spencer Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available. -- Jim Beggs Horticulture If a man does his best, what else is there? - General George S. Patton Good friends are good for your health. -- Irwin Sarason Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. -- Dean Inge A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos Men have become the tools of their tools. - Henry David Thoreau ( Horticulture Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children. -- Mark Twain Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference. -- Libbie Fudim 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. - Sir Winston Churchill Horticulture "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude. -- Oscar Wilde Opportunities multiply as they are seized. -- Sun Tzu Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. -- Emily Dickinson Horticulture You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality. -- Hermann Weyl 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 Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson Horticulture I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget. -- Adela Rogers St. John 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 When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that Uncl Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness. -- M. Hirschfield Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Horticulture If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly. -- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam. -- Johnny Carson I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Horticulture To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation. -- Latin Proverb "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my future crimes. -- Prince Horticulture The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. -- Jean Kerr "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. -- John Von Neuman Horticulture Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. -- Tom Robbins My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. -- Christopher Morley 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 If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't. -- Hyman Rickover "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Horticulture Biography lends to death a new terror. -- Oscar Wilde Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. -- Woody Allen The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. -- Thomas Jefferson Horticulture We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. -- Buck Henry My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. -- INDIRA During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. -- Soren Kierkegaard You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something. -- Seymour Papert Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done. -- Ernie Kovacs Horticulture "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Horticulture cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that. -- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. -- Thomas Jones The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. -- Mark Twain "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Horticulture May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. -- Henry Ford "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Horticulture Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. -- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life. --Loesje Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. -- Virginia Woolf "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) "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Horticulture The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. -- Robert M. Pirsig Men have become the tools of their tools. - Henry David Thoreau ( The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. -- Anonymous Horticulture
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