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Edinburgh Centre for Tropical Forests - Association supporting the sustainable management of forests and their contribution to society throughout the world. Details services, projects, events and reports.
Edinburgh Butterfly and Insect World - Includes some of the worlds most colourful butterflies flying around visitors. Open all year.
Edinburgh Zoo - They aim to promote, through the presentation of living collections, the conservation of animal species and wild places, through captive breeding, environmental education and scientific research.
Urban Alternatives - Committed to promoting local products around the Edinburgh vicinity, supporting sustainable city living and reducing food miles. Contains listings of local producers of food, arts, crafts, recycling information and exchange forum.
The Royal Botanic Garden - Thirty-one-hectare gardens founded in the 17th century. Open to the public.
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. -- Arnold Bennett Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Science and Environment It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. -- Gore Vidal "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit 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 Science and Environment The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. -- Thomas Jefferson "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche Good friends are good for your health. -- Irwin Sarason The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. -- Nicholas Murray Butler Science and Environment You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. -- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity. -- Ambrose Bierce Science and Environment "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. -- Albert Einstein "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I hate women because they always know where things are. -- James Thurber Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance Science and Environment A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. -- Jean de La Fontaine Science and Environment The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. -- Bertrand Russell Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't remember what I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals... -- G. K. Chesterton The greatest homage to truth is to use it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick. -- Ogden Nash Science and Environment "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. -- Stephen Leacock Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. -- Sigmund Freud Science and Environment "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough? - Niels Bohr If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. - Mario Andretti I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by. -- Douglas Adams You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Science and Environment "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. -- Arthur Schoperhauer "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Science and Environment If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings. -- Lisa Moriyama The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. -- General George Patton It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today? --Loesje Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them. -- Adlai Stevenson "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Science and Environment "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Laywers, I suppose, were children once. -- Charles Lamb I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens. -- E. B. White Science and Environment A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. - John D. Rockefeller The cynics are right nine times out of ten. - Henry Louis Mencken "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Science and Environment Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do. -- Oscar Wilde The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. - General George Patton "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Science and Environment "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 You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. -- Stanislaw J. Lec It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn' Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle. -- Marianne Williamson "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Science and Environment "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares, assess randomi Science and Environment Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings. -- Anonymous This is the fourth? -- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "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) The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life. -- It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people. -- Gore Vidal Science and Environment Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- Groucho Marx "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists? -- Woody Allen Science and Environment If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing. -- Kingsley Amis Experience teaches only the teachable. -- Aldous Huxley It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember. -- Eugene McCarthy When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. -- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have. -- William Hazlitt Science and Environment I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and "cheap"? -- Phyllis Diller Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. -- Rainer Maria Rilke "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Science and Environment "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe What does not kill me makes me stronger. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Grow old with me! The best is yet to be! -- Robert Browning Ninety percent of everything is crap. -- Theodore Sturgeon Science and Environment Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. -- Roger Babson "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) 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 Science and Environment
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