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Conchology UK - Discussion group for people with an interest in British marine, terrestrial and aquatic mollusca and their shells.

Freshwater Life of Northwestern Europe - Forum for discussion about the study of life in rivers, ponds, streams and drainage ditches, and the freshwater connections that cross natural boundaries.

Marine Mammal Group - Message board for Anglo-French monitoring group, covering the English Channel and adjacent areas. Includes a sighting database for marine mammals, basking sharks and turtles in this area.

Marine Wildlife of the Northeast Altantic Ocean - Forum used by members to report finds, ask questions, discuss queries over identification and concerns about environmental issues. This group excludes campaigning.

UK Botany - Forum for anyone interested in plants growing in the wild. Topics covered include: identification, distribution, requests for information, taxonomy, escapes and introductions, vegetation/habitats, and plant/animal interactions.

UK Cetacean Network - Message board and discussion group providing members with news and details of the latest cetacean sightings from around the UK, Europe, and the rest of the world.

UK Leps - Message board and forum dedicated to the discussion and conservation of moths and butterflies (lepidoptera) of the British Isles.

UK Wildlife - Message board and discussion group for people interested in mammals, birds, herptiles, fish, insects and all other invertebrates, vascular and lower plants, fungi, and anything else related to the wildlife of the British Isles.

UK Moths - Message board to discuss recent catches, identification, recording and conservation.

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(Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Chats and Forums If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. -- Robert Frost I think, therefore I'm single. -- Female philosopher Chats and Forums "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage -- Martin Luther "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it. -- Anonymous Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the moment. -- Robert Benchley Chats and Forums When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. -- Henry Miller "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Chats and Forums If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment. -- Voltaire Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great. -- Anonymous 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. -- Virginia Woolf Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. -- Salvador Dali Chats and Forums It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang. -- Tom Robbins "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. -- Oscar Wilde Chats and Forums "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed. -- Hoshang N. Akhtar When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. -- P. J. O'Rourke "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. -- Lord Byron Chats and Forums What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? -- Robert Schuller "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) If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings. -- Lisa Moriyama Chats and Forums An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. The church is the great lost and found department. -- Robert Short Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm. -- John F. Kennedy Chats and Forums We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it. -- Woodrow Wyatt "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech. -- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his campaign pledge that there would be Chats and Forums The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!", but "That's funny..." -- Isaac Asimov Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it. -- Alvin Toffler There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse! -- Calvin The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving. -- Russell Green A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. -- Charles Evans Hughes Chats and Forums We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to comfort us along 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 "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Chats and Forums The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them. -- Kin Hubbard If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised. -- Dorothy Parker If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing. -- Kingsley Amis "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -- Crow Chats and Forums Marriage is a rest period between romances. As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. -- Proverbs 23:7 Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. -- B.F. Skinner Chats and Forums Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig. -- Anon. Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. -- Clare Boothe Luce You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now. -- Ha It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. -- Arnold Bennett Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Chats and Forums "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." 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