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	Life Peatlands Project - Providing information about this project involved in restoring and conserving active blanket bog of European importance in North Scotland.
	Sustainable Scotland - Contains information to learn about sustainable development and the environment on a national and local level.
	Ecolinc - Promotes environmental awareness by providing newsletters to its members, arranging meetings, seminars and school debates in the north east of Scotland.
	Food Certification Scotland - Certification schemes and quality manuals for companies producing smoked, organic, fresh, smolts and other types of salmon products.
	Environmental Data Base - Scottish environmental links.
	Caledonian Research Foundation - Details on how it encourages academic research of international standing in biomedicine and the humanities by awarding fellowships and scholarships, and supporting an International Conference on aspects of the biomedical sciences. Scotland.
	Royal Society of Edinburgh - Information about evidence, advice and comment, events, seminars, debates, lectures, enquiries, research awards, publications and conference facilities. Special page for young people.
	The Shiant Isles - All about the archaeology, geology, and natural history of the Shiant Isles in North West Scotland, in connection with the book 'Sea Room' by Adam Nicolson, the owner of ths Isles.
	The Environmental Research Institute - A Thurso based facility capable of undertaking research activities. Information on education and training, facilities, research fields and staff is included. Contact addresses are also available.
	Scottish Crop Research Institute - Conducts research into plant molecular biology, virology, nematology, pathology, physiology, and metabolism.
	Scottish Genomic Facility - Details of the aims, operation and overview of the consortium.
	The Ythan Project - Aims to involve local people in protecting, restoring and enhancing the river Ythan. Contact details.
	Scotland's Moorland Forum - Strives to sustain and enhance the extent, diversity and range of habitats, species and enterprises encompassing moorland.

There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't. -- Seen on a bumper sticker "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits. -- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the House Bank scandal Science and Environment "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible. -- James McNeill Whistler Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it? -- James Thurber Science and Environment The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. -- Arthur Schoperhauer To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. -- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman. -- Herbert Spencer The better part of valor is discretion. -- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Science and Environment To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written. -- Jean Jacques Rousseau I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. -- Vincent Van Gogh "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Science and Environment Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees. -- Emiliano Zapata The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. -- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Science and Environment "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul. -- George Bernard Shaw ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Science and Environment "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) Science and Environment To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everythin If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee. -- Anonymous You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. -- Stanislaw J. Lec Science and Environment Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. -- Abraham Lincoln I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. - A. J. Liebling "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one more letter she'd have to remember. -- Shecky Greene "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Science and Environment "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to. -- Seen on a t-shirt Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Science and Environment "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. - Ian L. Fleming "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing. -- Bernard Baruch People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. -- Otto von Bismarck Science and Environment "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. -- Yiddish Proverb For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth- knowing. - Henry Louis Mencken Science and Environment Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. -- Oscar Wilde Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover, To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. -- Oscar Wilde This isn't right, this isn't even wrong. - Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Science and Environment Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way. -- Anonymous Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first. -- Anonymous Science and Environment "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. - Bertrand Russell [text_end] [text_start] A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. -- Albert Einstein Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life. -- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) 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 Science and Environment I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge. -- Edward Chilton blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran 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 Science and Environment "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. -- Aristotle If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee. -- Anonymous blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come. -- Victor Hugo Science and Environment "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "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) Science and Environment "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings. -- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. -- Samuel Johnson We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. -- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. -- Clifton Fadiman Science and Environment Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you. -- Satchel Paige blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. -- B.F. Skinner Science and Environment Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings. -- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight. -- George Gobel The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. -- George Bernard Shaw If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are... -- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Science and Environment Only positive consequences encourage good future performances. -- Kenneth H. Blanchard "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. 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