Exmoor Photography - Offers a selection of landscape and wildlife photographs taken in and around the National Park. Includes order form and contact details.
Wild Encounters - Photographer Peter Hendrie specialises in Exmoor National Park landscape images, including famous landmarks. Gallery and ordering details.
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- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
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Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
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a hundre I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Exmoor He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Exmoor
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
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-- Charles Brower There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
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-- Anonymous Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Exmoor And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Exmoor
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
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-- Groucho Marx Exmoor Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Exmoor
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
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-- Buke Ellington "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Exmoor "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Exmoor
I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Exmoor There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Exmoor
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Exmoor We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Exmoor
"Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Exmoor Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Exmoor
I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle 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 Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Exmoor "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Exmoor
Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Exmoor For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Exmoor
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Exmoor Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) 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.
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