Dartmoor Explorer - A virtual tour of the Dartmoor National Park in Devon UK including photographs.
Dartmoor Discovered - A commercial guide that offers information about touring the park. It also has an accommodation guide and a number of what to see and do style guides for the visitor.
Dartmoor National Park - The official site for the park, with seasonal guided walks programme and a selection of fact files covering various aspects of Dartmoor life and history.
Moorland Magic - Information regarding Dartmoor and Okehampton.
Dartmoor the Wildest Land - Aspects of the National Park, which include legends, letterboxing, letterbox clues and photographs. For the uninitiated, letterboxes are hidden pots where enthusiasts stamp in their arrival.
When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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 Dartmoor "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) "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 Dartmoor
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "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) Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Dartmoor "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Dartmoor
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Dartmoor Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Dartmoor
No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Dartmoor If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone 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. Love is the essential reality
and Dartmoor
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Dartmoor cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Dartmoor
"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Dartmoor Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Dartmoor
Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Dartmoor "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Dartmoor
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Dartmoor I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Dartmoor
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Dartmoor "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Dartmoor
LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Dartmoor In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Dartmoor
"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Dartmoor Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Dartmoor
