Day 3 doing indoor flights with a Harris Hawk. Hasn’t been worked with in years. He was deemed the untrainable bird due to his overwhelming fear of people. Good to see him flying again :0)
West Lynch farm is situated on the West coast near the village of Porlock in the Exmoor National Park and is home to Exmoor Owl and Hawk Bird of Prey center, Exmoor B&B accommodation, Visitor attraction, Exmoor Horse Riding
SALMAN RUSHDIE- “A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it, or offer your own version in return.”
SALMAN RUSHDIE –“How to defeat terrorism: Don’t be terrorized. Don’t let fear rule your life. Even if you are scared.”
SALMAN RUSHDIE –“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
SALMAN RUSHDIE –“Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.”
SALMAN RUSHDIE –“Terrible things are being done today in the name of Islam, but simplification of the issue, when it involves omitting every thing that can’t easily be blistered by Naipaul’s Olympian disgust, is of no help.”
SALMAN RUSHDIE,,Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
SALVADOR DALI –“The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.”
SALVADOR DALI –“There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.”
SALVADOR DALI –“There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.”
SALVADOR DALI –“Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.”
SAM EWING –“Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their nose, and some don’t turn up at all.”
SAM KEEN –“Love isn’t about becoming somebody’s perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.”
SAM KEEN –“Once we abandon the age-old quest for consistency, for forging a single identity, for a unifying vision, we are left with no guiding principle except to follow the dictates of the moment.”
SAM KEEN –“You come to love not by finding the perfect person but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.”
SAM LEVENSON –“Love at first sight is easy to understand, it’s when two people have been looking at each other for a life time that it becomes a miracle.”
SAM PECKINPAH –“There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channelled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness.”
SAMANTABHADRA –“Just as a fire quickly reduces decayed wood to ashes, so does an aspirant who is totally absorbed in the inner self and completely unattached to all external objects shake to the roots, attenuate, and wither away his karma body.”
SAMAYIKA PATHA –“May the Lord of Lords, who is free from all blemishes like attachment and aversion which hold in tight bondage all embodied beings, who has no need of sense organs, is knowledge itself and eternally independent, be enshrined in my heart. May the Lord of Lords, whose cognition pervades all the objects in the cosmos, who has attained liberation and perfection, is fully enlightened and absolutely free from the bondage of karma, and whose contemplation destroys all spiritual aberrations, reside in my heart.”
SAMI MAHDI –“From gazelles’ eyes the pupils dropped when the bridge was bombed Lovers9 rings shattered and mothers were bewildered… with fire we perform our ablutions every morning collecting our remnants And the debris of our houses We purge our souls with the blood of our wounds… Plenty we have received what shall we offer you, 0 lands of patient destitutes? Plenty we have received so receive us and pave with us the paths of wayfarers.”
SAMI MANSEI –“Living in this world—/to what shall I compare it? It’s like a boat/rowing out at break of day/ leaving no trace behind.”
SAMUEL BECKETT- “Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again, fail again.”
SAMUEL BECKETT- “Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again, fail again. Fail better.”
SAMUEL BECKETT -“Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.”
SAMUEL BECKETT –“I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.”
SAMUEL BECKETT- “We are all borne mad. Some remain so.”
SAMUEL BECKETT- “What have I done to god, what has god done to us, what have they done to god?”
SAMUEL BUCKET –“Nothing happens, no body comes, no body goes, and it’s awful.”
SAMUEL BUTLER –“All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.”
SAMUEL BUTLER –“And as the French we conquered once, now give us laws for pantaloons. The length of breeches and the gathers Port-connons, periwigs, and feathers.”
SAMUEL BUTLER- “Man is the only animal that laughs and a has state legislature.”
SAMUEL BUTLER- “Self preservation is the first law of nature.”
SAMUEL BUTLER –“The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.”
SAMUEL BUTLER –“Union may be strength, but it is mere blind brute strength unless wisely directed.”
SAMUEL BUTLER THE YOUNGER –“To himself every one is a immortal, he may know that he is going to die but he can never know that he is dead.”
SAMUEL COLERIDGE –“Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.”
SAMUEL GOLDWYN –“No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.”
SAMUEL GRAFTON –“A penny will hide the biggest star in the Universe if you hold it close enough to your eye.”
SAMUEL HOFFENSTEIN –“My soul is dark with stormy riot, Directly traceable to diet.”
SAMUEL JACKSON –“All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.”
SAMUEL JACKSON –“Everybody likes stories about underdogs that overcome.”
SAMUEL JOHNSON – “Oh, no, not me, I never lost control. You’re face to face, with the man who sold the world.”
SAMUEL JOHNSON – “You have no business with consequences, you are to tell the truth.”
SAMUEL JOHNSON –“Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.”
SAMUEL JOHNSON –“All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.”
SAMUEL JOHNSON –“All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.”
SAMUEL JOHNSON –“Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.”
SAMUEL JOHNSON –“Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions. He is convinced by the length of time and frequency of experiment.”
SAMUEL JOHNSON –“Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.”
SAMUEL JOHNSON –“If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.”
SAMUEL JOHNSON –“Instead of rating the man by his performances, we rate too frequently the performances by the man.”
SAMUEL JOHNSON –“Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.”
SAMUEL JOHNSON –“Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.”
SAMUEL JOHNSON –“Magnificence can not be cheap, for what is cheap can not be magnificent.”
SAMUEL JOHNSON –“Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage in triumph of hope over experience.”
SAMUEL JOHNSON –“Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.”
SAMUEL JOHNSON –“Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spent less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.”
SAMUEL JOHNSON –“Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.”
SAMUEL JOHNSON –“So, if you are to speak for people, you must know them, and if you are to respect to people, you must love them.”
SAMUEL JOHNSON –“The fountain of content must spring up in the mind; and he who has so little knowledge of human nature as to see happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste ; his life in fruitless : efforts, and multiply the grief which he proposes to remove.”
SAMUEL JOHNSON –“The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.”
SAMUEL JOHNSON –“The speculator; who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity; and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less.”
SAMUEL JOHNSON –“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.”
SAMUEL JOHNSON –“The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.”
SAMUEL JOHNSON –“Those who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often granted upon easier terms.”
SAMUEL JOHNSON –“When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.”
SAMUEL SMILES –“Fortune has often been blame for her blindness, but fortune is not as blind as men are.”
SAMUEL SMILES –“Hope is like the sun, which as we journey towards it, cast the shadow of our burden behind us.”
SAMUEL STEAM –“When I was young, life was a warm and gentle wind and I a weathercock crowing to the world. But now I am old, an uncertain arrow trembling in the cold of a headless gale.”
SAMUEL T COLERIDGE –“Language is the armory of the human ‘ mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.”
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE –“Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.”
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE –“How inimitably graceful children are before they learn to dance.”
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE –“So will I build my altar in the fields, And the blue sky my fretted dome shall be, And the sweet fragrance that the wild flower yields Shall be the incense I will yield to thee.”
SAMUEL ULLMAN –“Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.”
SAMUEL ULLMAN –“Youth is not a time of life it is a state of mind to find it.”
SAMUEL ULLMAN –“Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind.”
SAMULI. PARONEN –“Name is a fence and within it you are nameless.”
SAMURAI WISDOM –“I have no tactics; I make Emptiness and Fullness my tactics./ I have no talent; I make Ready Wit my talent./ I have no friends; I make the Mind my friend./ I have no enemy; I make Incautiousness my enemy./1 have no sword; I make No Mind my sword.”
SAN TZU –“Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack.”
SANATAN –“Krishna, who can fathom the depths .of thy heart? As the juggler makes the wooden puppet dance, so, too, does the man whom you inspire, dance without knowing why he is dancing or through whom.”
SANAYA ROMAN –“What you love is a sign from your higher self of what you are to do.”
SANDMAN –“Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.”
SANJAY SINGH –“Life is just a game, roll the dice, spin the wheel. Whatever comes up is what you get. If you take the game seriously, you become obsessed by it, always ” trying to find a goal, but in the game of life, there is no colourful square that says finish.”
SANKHAYANA ARANYAKA –“Even as Brahma can change his form and move at will, so amongst all beings can he change his form and move at will who is a Comprehensor thereof.”
SANSKRIT PROVERB –“For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth.”
SANSKRIT SHIOKA ANGIKAM BHUVANAM YASYA/ VACHIKAM SARVA ANGMAYAM/AHARYAM CHANDRA TARADI/ TARN NAMO, SATVIKAM SHIVAM –“0 benevolent Shiva, whose dance is the whole of the cosmos, the music to which is all of creation, who is adorned with the moon and stars as his jewels, and whose abhinaya is eternal, I bow before you!”
SARA PADDISON –“How many times a day does some situation pop up that leads to moments of frustration and anxiety? Surrendering your head to your heart in those moments will lead you to balance and fulfillment. As you listen to your spirit, peace follows. So follow your spirit. Build your foundation in your heart. Love must be your innermost and spontaneous response towards every person you encounter Say to yourself inside, “I just love”. Use these words as a key to start the engine running in your heart and watch life brighten with new love and understanding. Surrender to your new awareness and let love unfold the purpose of creation to you.”
SARAH BAN BREATHNACH –“Choice is destiny’s soul mate.”
SARAH BAN BREATHNACH –“Dreams need doing as much as they need being the being always comes first.”
SARAH BAN BREATHNACH –“Each day offers us simple gifts when we are willing to search our hearts for the place that’s right for each of us.”
SARAH BAN BREATHNACH –“Grace is available for each of us every day— our spiritual daily bread — but we’ve got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow.”
SARAH BAN BREATHNACH –“Happiness that the world cannot take away only flourishes in the secret garden of our souls.”
SARAH BAN BREATHNACH –“Search for the sacred in the ordinary with gratitude in your heart and you will surely find it.”
SARAH BAN BREATHNACH –“The simpler we make our lives, the more abundant they become.”
SARAH BAN BREATHNACH –“There is no scarcity except in our souls.”
SARAH BAN BREATHNACH –“We don’t know if a choice is wise or wrong until we’ve lived it.”
SARAH MAC LAHAN –“Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another’s personhood.”
SAROJINI NAIDU –“Beloved, I offer to you in tender allegiance anew/ A bracelet of floss. Let me twist its tassels, vermilion and blue/ and violet, girdle your wrist. Accept this bright gage from my hand, Let your heart its sweet speech understand The ancient high symbol and end/ Is wrought on each gold-threaded strand,/ The fealty of friend unto friend./ A garland how frail of design,/ Our spirit to clasp and entwine/In devotion unstrained and unbroken,/ How slender a circle and sign/ Of secret, deep pledges unspoken.”
SAROJINI NAIDU –“In noon-tide hours, 0 Love, secure and strong, I need thee not; mad dreams are mine to bind The world to my desire, and hold the wind A voiceless captive to my conquering song. I need thee not, I am content with these: Keep silence in thy soul, beyond the seas! But in the desolate hour of midnight, when An ecstasy of starry silence sleeps And my soul hungers for thy voice, 0 then, Love, like the magic of wild melodies, Let thy soul answer mine across the seas.”
SAROJINI NAIDU –“Thy future calls thee with a manifold sound To crescent honours, splendours, victories vast; Waken, O slumbering Mother and be crowned, Who once were empress of the sovereign past.”
SARVAJNANOTTARA AGAMA –“All visibles and invisibles, movables and immovables, are pervaded by Me. All the worlds existing in the tattvas from Shakti to Prithvi exist in me. Whatever is heard or seen, internally or externally, is pervaded by Me.”
SARVEPALLI RADHAKRISHANAN- “The worst sinner has a future, even as the greatest saint has had a past. No one is so good or bad as he imagines.”
SARVEPALLI RADHAKRISHNAN- “A good teacher must know how to arouse the interest of the pupil in the field of study for which he is responsible… he must himself be a fellow traveler in the exciting pursuit of knowledge.”
SARVEPALLI RADHAKRISHNAN –“The worst sinner has a future, even as the greatest saint has had a past. No one is so good or so bad as he imagines.”
SASHA AZEVEDO –“To believe in yourself and to follow your dreams, to have goals in life and a drive to success, and to surround yourself with the things and the people that make you happy – this is success!”
SASKYA PANDITA –“It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.”
SATAPATHA BRAHMANA –“In the beginning, to be sure, this world was water, nothing but a sea of water. The waters desired, “How can we be propagated?” They kindled their own ardour, performing this very act with fervour. While summoning their creative energy they warmed up and a golden egg wasproduced.”
SAUL BELLOW –“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.”
SAYINGS OF BAHA’U'LLAH –“Humility exalts man to the heaven of glory and power while pride abases him to the depths of wretchedness and degradation… Those I who are the beloved of God, in whatever place they gather and whomsoever they may meet, must ( evince, in their attitude towards God, and in the manner of their celebration of His praise and glory such humility and submissiveness that every atom of dust beneath theirs feet may attest the depth of their devotion.”
SAYINGS OF THE PROPHET –“Abu Jariya, an inhabitant of Basra, coming to Medina and being convinced of the inspired mission of Prophet Muhammad asked him, according to a Muslim historian, for some great rule of conduct. “Speak evil of no one,” answered the Prophet.”
SAYINGS OF ZARATHUSTRA –“I If you want the whole I world to admire you, make everyone happy and waste no time in self admiration. Seek your happiness in the happiness of all. Regard the sorrows and sufferings of others as yours and hasten to assuage them.”
SCHILLER –“The man who fears nothing is not less powerful than he who is feared is every one.”
SCHILLER –“The opinion of the majority is not the final proof of what is right.”
SCHILLER –“The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.”
SCHILLER –“When the wine goes in, strange things come out.”
SCHOPENHAUER –“The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary.”
SCOFF PECK –“Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable.”
SCOTT –“Better ride safe in the dark, says the proverb, than in day light with a cutthroat at your elbow.”
SCOTT ADAMS –“Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art knows which ones to keep.”
SCOTT ADAMS –“I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination.”
SCOTT ADAMS –“Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.”
SCOTT HAMILTON –“The only disability in life is a bad attitude.”
SCOTTISH PROVERB- “Never merry for money. You’ll borrow it cheaper.”
SCOTTISH SAYING –“From ghoulies and ghosties and longleggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us!”
SEAMI MOTOKIYO –“The objects of sense in the world ever changing — These we adhere to as things of reality; But in the ocean of birth and death, they drown us. How long shall we wander in this path of dreams? This world to us! Indeed seems permanent and fixed, yet after all, what is it but a road of dreams to which life after life we must perforce return?”
SEAN 0 CASEY –“There is no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.”
SEAN CANNERY –“I’m incredibly lucky to still be around, doing all the things I want to do and getting extremely well paid for it. There’s a parallel with golf — a lot of it is in the mind, and the moment you start to lose the enthusiasm or appetite, it affects your judgments and decisions. And then you stop performing well. I think enthusiasm. and appetite are more important than anything else.”
SEAN CONNERY –“I have always hated that damn James Bond. I’d like to kill him.”
SEBASTIAN R N CHAMFORT –“The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed.”
SEBUKTEGIN –“Wealth cannot be acquired except by good government and wise statesmanship, and good government cannot be achieved except through justice and righteousness.”
SENATOR ALAN BIBLE –“We labour long and earnestly for peace, because war threatens the survival of man. It is time we laboured with equal passion to defend our environment. A polluted stream can be as lethal as a bullet.”
SENECA – “Fidelity gained by bribes is overcome by bribe.”
SENECA – “Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.”
SENECA- “A disease is further on the road to being cured when it breaks further from concealment.”
SENECA –“All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.”
SENECA –“As long as you live keep learning how to live.”
SENECA -“As long as you live, keep learning how to live.”
SENECA –“As long as you live, keep learning how to live.”
SENECA –“As the soil, however; rich it may be cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit.”
SENECA –“Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.”
SENECA –“Consult your friend on all things, especially on those with respect to yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.”
SENECA -“Crime must be concealed by crime.”
SENECA –“Human affairs are like a chess game; only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shatters does it manifest its emptiness.”
SENECA –“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.”
SENECA –“If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that i should keep it close and not communicate it, i would refuse the gift.”
SENECA –“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are different.”
SENECA –“Life is neither a good nor an evil, it is a simply the place where good and evil exist.”
SENECA –“Life’s like a play; it’s not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters.”
SENECA –“Many have gone through life merely accumulating the instruments of life. Consider individuals, survey men in general: there is none whose life does not look forward to the morrow. ‘What harm is there in this?’ you ask. Infinite harm; for such persons do not live, but are preparing to live. They postpone everything. While we are postponing, life speeds by.”
SENECA –“Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.”
SENECA –“Not a soul takes thought how well he may live — only how long; yet a good life might be everybody’s a long one can be nobody’s.”
SENECA –“Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to prove that he has lived long, except his years.”
SENECA –“Old age is an incurable disease.”
SENECA –“The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden… And so this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages. There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did mot know things that are so plain to them…Many discoveries are reserved for ages stills to come, when memory of us will have been effaced. Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate… Nature does not reveal her mysteries once and for all.”
SENECA –“To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.”
SENECA –“Whenever we want to watch an eclipse of the sun we set out basins filled with oil or pitch, because the heavy liquid is not easily disturbed and so preserves the images it receives.”
SENECA –“Worse then war is the fear of war.”
SENECA THE YOUNGER –“A kingdom founded ; on injustice never lasts.”
SENG-TS’AN –“Stop talking, stop thinking, and there is nothing you will not understand. /Return to the Root and you will find the Meaning;/ Pursue the Light, and you will lose its source…There is no need to seek Truth; only stop having views.”
SENG-TS’AN –“The very small is as the very large when boundaries are forgotten; The very large is as the very small when its outlines are not seen.”
SEUMES MACMANUS –“Young people don’t know what age is and old people forget what youth was.”
SEUSS –“You have brains in your bead, and feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.”
SEXTUS THE PYTHAGOREAN –“Whatever you honour above all things, that which you so honour will have dominion over you. But if you give yourself to the domination of God, you will thus have dominion over all things.”
SEYMOUR –“How come you did all those miracles in the old days and don’t do any now?”
SEYMOUR MILLS –“Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me.”
SHABANA AZMI –“Auitudes on Ageing What is old age; when does it sneak in; who falls victim to it? A retired person at 60 qualifies as a senior citizen. But does that make her old? Tiny little adjustments can go a long way in providing the support senior citizens need. If we can free them from their worries and create the support structure they require, they will rise to the level of their own potential. On their own terms.”
SHABI START- “Rise above time and space, pass by the world, and be to yourself you own world.”
SHABISTARI –“Behold the world mingled together, Angels with demons, Satan with the archangel. All mingled like seed and fruit, Infidel with faithful, and faithful with infidel. At the point of the present are gathered All cycles and seasons, day, month, and year. World at beginning is world without end.”
SHABISTARI –“If you cleave the heart of one drop of water, there will issue from it a hundred oceans.”
SHABISTARI –“If you wish to see that Face, Seek another eye. The philosopher With his two eyes sees double, So is unable to see unity of Truth.”
SHABISTARI –“In every strain which the tavern-haunters hear from the minstrel Comes to them rapture from the unseen world.”
SHABISTARI –“Pure being is too bright to behold, yet it can be seen reflected in the mirror of this world.”
SHABISTARI –“Rise above time and space, pass by the world, and be to yourself your own world.”
SHABISTARI –“T and ‘you’ are but the lattices,/ in the niches of a lamp,/ through which the One Light shines./ T and ‘you’ are the veil/ between heaven and earth;/ lift this veil and you will see/ no longer the bonds of sects and creeds./ When ‘I’ and ‘you’ do not exist,/ what is mosque, what is synagogue?/What is the Temple of Fire?”
SHABISTARI –“The whole world is yours, yet you remain helpless: one more destitute than you has yet to be seen. They have spoken to you of your Essence. So religious laws have been assigned for you to follow. You are the kernel and the world the shell; Know yourself: the life of the world is you. The world of wisdom and world of the soul are your capital, the earth and sky your ornaments. You are a likeness of the image of God: Ask from yourself anything you may desire.”
SHABISTARI –“The world has no substantial reality, but exists as a shadowy pageant or play.”
SHABISTARI –“What are “I” and “You”? Just lattices in the niches of a lamp through which the One Light radiates.”
SHABISTARI –“You have heard much of this world, yet what have you seen of this world? What is its form and substance? “
SHABISTARI –“Your eye has not strength enough To gaze at the burning sun. But you can see its brilliant light By watching its reflection Mirrored in the water. So the reflection of Absolute Being Can be viewed in this mirror of Non Being, For non-existence, being opposite Reality Instantly catches its reflection.”
SHAH HATIM –“0 ye Hindus and Muslims, Tell me which religion says Ignore the God in your heart And be obsessed only with the temple or the mosque.”
SHAH OF IRAN –“Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches… My advisors built a wall between myself and my people. I didn’t realise what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people.”
SHAHNAZYOUSUF –“Bus to Muzaffarabad may not be as spectacular as the breaking of the Berlin Wall, but it will leave a positive impact on the psyche of the Kashmir! People. Give peace a chance.”
SHAHRIAR SHAHRIARI –“Main maxims of Zoroastrianism Humata, Hukhta, Huvarshta, which mean: Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds. There is only one path and that is the path of Truth. Do the right thing because it is the right thing to do, and then all beneficial rewards will come to you also.”
SHAHRIAR SHAHRIARI –“On Ahura Mazda Ahura means the Lord Creator, and Mazda means Supremely Wise. This was the name by which Zarathushtra addressed his God. He proclaimed that there is only one God, who is the singular creative and sustaining force of the Universe. Zarathushtra was the first Prophet who brought a monotheistic religion.”
SHAHRIAR SHAHRIARI –“On Dualism Even though there is only one God, our universe works on the basis of moral dualism. There is Spenta Mainyu or progressive mentality and Angra Mainyu or regressive mentality. Having given us the ability to choose, Ahura Mazda leaves us alone and allows us to make our choices. And if we choose good, we will bring about good, and if we choose evil, we will cause evil This is how the moral universe operates.”
SHAIKH ABU SAEED ABIL KHEIR –“Let deep longing dwell in your heart,/ never give up, never lose hope.”
SHAIKH AL HUJWIR –“Man’s love towards God is a quality that manifests itself in the heart of the pious believer, in the form of veneration and magnification, so that he seeks to satisfy his Beloved and becomes impatient and restless in his desire for vision of Him, and cannot rest with anyone except Him, and grows familiar with the remembrance of Him, and abjures the remembrance of everything besides.”
SHAKESPEAR - “We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.”
SHAKESPEAR –“And when the mind is quicken’d, out of doubt, The organs, though defunct and dead before, Break up their drowsy grave and newly move With casted slough and fresh legerity.”
SHAKESPEAR –“Do all men kill the things they do not love?”
SHAKESPEAR -“Small cheer and great welcome makes merry feast.”
SHAKESPEAR –“We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.”
SHAKESPEAR –“We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey/ And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch and not their terror.”
SHAKESPEAR –“Wherein I speak of most disastrous chances, of moving accidentsby flood and field.”
SHAKESPEARE –“As you are old a reverend, you should be wise.”
SHAKESPEARE –“Be wary, then; best safety lies in fear.”
SHAKESPEARE –“Corruption wins not more than honesty.”
SHAKESPEARE –“Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care; Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather; Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare; Youth is full sport, age’s breath is short; Youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and »cold; Youth is wild, age is tame; Age, I do abhor thee: Youth, I do adore thee.”
SHAKESPEARE –“Ghosts, wondering here and there, troop have to churchyard.”
SHAKESPEARE- “I am as poor as job, my lord, but not so patient.”
SHAKESPEARE –“In time we hate that which we often fear.”
SHAKESPEARE –“Macbeth: Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart? Doctor: Therein the patient must minister to himself.”
SHAKESPEARE –“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing the attempt.”
SHAKESPEARE –“Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safely.”
SHAKESPEARE- “Small cheer and great welcome makes merry feast.”
SHAKESPEARE –“The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not mov’d with concord of sweet sounds,/ Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils;/ The motions of his spirit are dull as night,/ And his affections dark as , Erebus;/ Let no such man be trusted.”
SHAKESPEARE –“The prince of darkness is a gentleman.”
SHAKESPEARE –“The stars above us govern our conditions.”
SHAKESPEARE –“There is a tide in the affairs of men/ Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;/ Omitted, all the voyage of their life/ Is bound in shallows and in miseries.”
SHAKESPEARE –“There’s no such sport as sport by sport o’erthrown, to make theirs ours and ours none but our own.”
SHAKESPEARE –“Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.”
SHAKESPEARE –“Truth will come to light; murder can not be hiding long.”
SHAKESPEARE –“Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand, Blood and revenge are hammering in my head.”
SHAKTI GAWAIN –“… We each need to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.”
SHAKTI GAWAIN –“…. The darkest hour is truly before the dawn.”
SHAKTI GAWAIN –“Every moment is a moment of creation, and each moment of creation contains infinite possibilities.”
SHAKTI GAWAIN –“Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything your heart desires must come to you.”
SHAKTI GAWAIN –“Every time you don’t follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.”
SHAKTI GAWAIN –“Falling in love is actually a powerful experience of feeling the universe move through you. The other person has become a channel for you, a catalyst that triggers you to open up to the love, beauty and compassion within.”
SHAKTI GAWAIN –“Giving happens not from a space of sacrifice, or self-righteousness, or an idea of spirituality, but for the pure pleasure of it — because it’s fun. It can only come from a full, loving space.”
SHAKTI GAWAIN –“Going with the flow means holding onto your goals lightly … and being willing to change them if something more appropriate and satisfying comes along. It means being firm, yet flexible.”
SHAKTI GAWAIN –“I also know that when I’m trusting and being myself as fully as possible, everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily often miraculously.”
SHAKTI GAWAIN –“In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it.”
SHAKTI GAWAIN –“Probably the most difficult part of getting what you want in life is just figuring out what you really want.”
SHAKTI GAWAIN –“The healing always comes from within.”
SHAKTI GAWAIN –“The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.”
SHAKTI GAWAIN –“There is no separation between us and God; we are divine expressions of the creative principle on this level of existence.”
SHAKTI GAWAIN –“We always attract into our lives whatever we think about the most, believe in most strongly expect on the deepest levels, and/or imagine most vividly If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and envisioning pleasure, satisfaction and happiness, we will attract and create people, situations, and events which confirm to our positive expectations. So the more positive energy we put into imagining what we want, the more it begins to manifest in our lives.”
SHAKTI GAWAIN –“We are all born with an infinite number of different qualities or energies within us. One of the most important tasks in our life is to discover and develop as. many of these energies as possible, so that we can be well-rounded, and experience the full range of our potential.”
SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA –“Do not commit any unwholesome actions Accumulate virtuous deeds, Tame and train your own mind”.”
SHAM LAL –“”Hell is others”, Tagore might have conceded, but he would have added, “So is Heaven”. To him there would be no true love without suffering. Parvati looks all the more, lovely after her great penance. Shakuntala’s love finds fulfillment only after the ordeal through which she goes…”
SHAM LAL –“Ahimsa is not an abstract ideal but a practical idea whose efficacy can be judged only by the celerity with which it goes into action. Perhaps there are saints who do not think ill of anyone and who have rid their minds of the last trace of violence.”
SHAM LAL –“Ask: Would easier communication be of much avail when people have very little to communicate?”
SHAM LAL –“Every philosophy and every religion has its dialectic of grov/th arid decay and it is helpful to understand the circumstances.”
SHAM LAL –“It is modern poets, playwrights and novelists in contrast to social scientists, who are primarily concerned with existential problem and seek answers to questions which bug the more sensitive today.”
SHANA WILSON –“Ghosts and goblins and witches with wild hair give you a scare with there wicked stare. If you are scared of the dark or ghastly creatures lurking in the park then you should not go out on Halloween night because most likely it will give you a fright. Poltergeists and zombies come up from their graves and bats are screeching in their caves. Banshees are screaming. I hope your flashlight is beaming. Watch out or something just might say BOO! Don’t say that I didn’t warn you.”
SHANE WARNE –“Whoever writes my scripts is doing an unbelievable job… There’s some special things that happen in your life and some special days in your life and this is definitely one of them.”
SHANNON SERVICE –“How I lead my life speaks a prayer for the world I want to create.”
SHANTIDEVA –“My own self and my pleasures, my righteous past, present and future, may i sacrifice without regard, in order to achieve the welfare of other beings.”
SHANTIDEVA –“Whenever there is attachment in my mind and whenever there is the desire to be angry, i should not do anything nor say anything…”
SHARON STONE –“Love is like heaven, but it can hurt like hell.”
SHASHI THAROOR –“”But Ammamma”, I would ask my grandmother, “why does Ganesh ride a rat?” My grandmother explained that each animal is a symbol of Ganesh’s capacities: “like an elephant, he can crash through the jungle uprooting every impediment in his path, while like the rat he can burrow his way through the tightest of defences”.”
SHAW, G.B. –“EVERYONE DIES, BUT NOT EVERYONE FULLY LIVES. TOO MANY PEOPLE ARE HAVING A NEAR-LIFE EXPERIENCE.”
SHEIKH ABDULLAH –“Kashmir will ever be with India, whatever sacrifices we shall have to make.
SHEKEL HAKODESH –“He who doth choose charity for a fortress will find men of their own accord humble themselves before him; against all daily accidents and dire calamity there’s naught to shield affirm man like deeds of kindness.”
SHEKEL HAKODESH –“Kings may rule the world, but the wise rule kings.”
SHEKEL HAKODESH –“To be too fond of this world and of that which is there in, provoketh the wrat of Heaven. If thou sacrifice this fondness, thou shalt be sure of the glory and grace of thy God.”
SHEL SILVERSTEIN –“I will not play tug o’ war. I’d rather play hug o’ war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins.”
SHELDON B. KOPP – “The only times that we can have what we long for are those moments when we stop grasping for it.”
SHELDON S. MAYE –“I will not condemn you for what you did yesterday. If you do it right today.”
SHERIOCK HOLMES –“Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.”
SHERWOOD EDDY –“Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence; faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.”
SHILPA PREM –“The border that stands between you and I Resembles nothing but a clear-cut, fictitious lie.”
SHINTO –“Even in a single leaf of a tree, or a tender blade of grass, the awe-inspiring Deity manifests.”
SHINTO –“Even in a single leaf of a tree, or a tender blade of grass, the awe-inspiring Deity manifests Itself.”
SHINTO UDEN FUTSUJOSHO –“Prayers to the Deity accompanied by monetary gifts secured by injustice are sure not to be granted. Pray in all righteousness and the Deity will be pleased to listen to your supplication. Foolish is he who, in impatient eagerness and without following the path of righteousness, hopes to obtain divine protection.”
SHINTOISM –“All appetites are natural and hence are divine gifts; and the temperate enjoyment of them is a divine power. If man oversteps the limits of moderation, he pollutes his body and mind. To be godlike is to be natural; to be natural is to follow Nature. Keep within the limits set by instinct and reason. This is the fundamental conception of Due Measure.”
SHINTOISM –“All things of this world have their own spirituality, as they were born from the divine couple. Therefore, the relationship between the natural environment of this world and people is that of blood kin, like the bond between brother and sister.”
SHIRLEY ABBOTT –“We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies.”
SHIRLEY MACLAINE –“I don’t need a man to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we’ll ever have is the one with ourselves.”
SHIRLEY MACLAINE –“What we are and what we may be Is revealed by the light within.”
SHIV KHERA –“Successful people don’t do different things. They do things differently.”
SHIV KHERA –“Winning don’t do different things, they just do things differently.”
SHIVA PURANA –“In the pure world of Kailasha, Rudra, the annihilator of living beings, is stationed. Beyond that are the 56 worlds ending with Ahimsa region. The action-Lord who has screened everything is stationed in the city of Jnanakailasha in the Ahimsa region. At the end of the same is the wheel of Time and beyond the ken of Time is the space called Kalatita. There Kala, God of death and Time, backed by Shiva, unites everyone with Time.”
SHIVA SUBRAMANIAM –“Using six thinking hats and lateral thinking, invented by Edward de Bono, one can enhance confidence in oneself and be a better thinker and creative person.”
SHOMSHUKLLA –“Those white flowers I know them Do you? From the time I was a child I know them Frangipani I spent many an afternoon collecting them Bending Sometimes sitting On the ground Stretching my young arms Across the grass Or just jumping for them Those white Frangipani.”
SHRI MANGATRAMJI MAHARAJ –“Whenever there is the influence of the Lord’s pleasure, the mind transcends truth and error. At such moments the knowledgeable satpurush understands the inner pleasure that lies within that disinterested transcendence.”
SHUETASHUARA UPANISHAD –“Meditate and realize this world is filled with the presence of God.”
SHUETASHVATARA –“One should know that nature is surely maya and the ruler of maya is the Great Lord. This whole world is pervaded by beings that are parts of Him.”
SHVETASHVATARA –“Health, a light body, freedom from cravings, a glowing skin, sonorous voice, fragrance of body, these signs indicate progress in the practice of meditation.”
SHVETASHVATARA UPANISHAD –“He is fire and the sun, and the moon/ and the stars. He is the air and the sea/ He is the blue bird, he is the green bird/ with red eyes; he is the thundercloud, / and he is the seasons and the seas/ from his divine power comes forth all this/ Magical show of name and form.”
SHVETASHVATARA UPANISHAD –“Health, a light body, freedom from cravings, a glowing skin, sonorous voice, fragrance of body: these signs indicate ‘ progress in the practice of meditation.”
SID CAESER- “Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.”
SID MADWED –“When you choose to be happy everyday You’ll find good things come your way If you want to be happy start where you are. Don’t look for happiness, distant and far. You can find happiness just where you are. You can find it just where you are…”
SIDDHASANA –“Lord Mahavira, your word sometimes supports the view of providence, at other times calls events spontaneously occurring or ascribes destiny to external factors. At times you hold) the deeds of individuals to be the mould of their desert, at other times find that another’s deeds project their moral reflection on the individual.”
SIDHAGOST –“The lotus in the water is not wet nor the water-fowl in the stream. If a man would live, but by the world untouched, Meditate and repeat the name of the Lord.”
SIDNET POITIER –“We will suffer from the preoccupation that there exists, in our love one, perfection.”
SIDNEY MADWED –“You can choose to be happy or sad and whichever you choose that is what you get. No one is really responsible to make someone else happy, no matter what most people have been taught and accept as true.”
SIDNEY PETTIER –“We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists, in our loved one, perfection.”
SIGMUND FREUD – “A fool in love makes no sense to me. I only think you are a fool if you do not love.”
SIGMUND FREUD – “The essential sadness is to go through life without loving. But it is almost equally sad to leave this world without ever telling those you love that you do.”
SIGMUND FREUD –“A kiss is a trick devised by nature to stop speech when words become superficial.”
SIGMUND FREUD –“Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man.”
SIGMUND FREUD –“Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.”
SIGMUND FREUD –“Heartbreaks last as long as you want and cut as deep as you allow them to go.”
SIGMUND FREUD –“Hopeless romantics are only hopeless in the eyes of those who don’t believe in romance.”
SIGMUND FREUD –“Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.”
SIGMUND FREUD –“In the long run nothing can withstand reason and experience.”
SIGMUND FREUD –“It is a mistake to believe that a science consists in nothing but conclusively proved propositions, and it is unjust to demand that it should. It is a demand only made by those who feel a craving for authority in some form and a need to replace the religious catechism by something else, even if it be a scientific one.”
SIGMUND FREUD –“Love isn’t about becoming somebody’s perfect person; it’s about finding someone who helps you become the best person you can be.”
SIGMUND FREUD –“The essential sadness is to go through life without loving. But it is almost equally sad to leave this world without ever telling those you love that you do,”
SIGMUND FREUD –“We are never so helplessly unhappy as when we lose love.”
SIGN IN A SHOP –“THANK YOU FOR NOT SMOKING. Cigarette smoke is the residue of your pleasure. It contaminates the air, pollutes my hair and clothes, not to mention my lungs. This takes place without my consent.”
SIKH PRAYER –“Having first remembered God the Almighty, think of Guru Nanak. Then of Angad Guru and Amar Das, and Ram Das, may they help us. Remember Guru Arjan, Guru Har Gobind and the holy Guru Har Rai. Let us think of holy Har Krishan whose sight dispels all sorrows. Let us remember Tegh Bahadur and the nine treasures shall come hastening to our homes. May they all assist us everywhere. May the tenth Guru Gobind Singh the lord of hosts and protector of the faith assist us everywhere: Turn your thoughts. 0, Khalsa to the teachings of Guru Granth Sahib and call on God.”
SIKH THOUGHT –“From Primal Truth emanated air; from air emanated water; from water emanated three worlds and Himself He merged with the creation.”
SIKH THOUGHT –“From Primal Truth emanated air; from air emanated water; from water emanated three worlds and Himself He merged with the creation.”
SIMI BAJAJ –“…The little girl closed her eyes And prayed to the mother divine O Ma, enlighten this world with wisdom Erase the, demarcation line.”
SIMI BAJAJ –“An aura as brilliant as the magnificent Sun A beauty as luminous as the ethereal Moon A lingering fragrance that reminds you Of beautiful flowers in full bloom.”
SIMI BAJAJ –“Call her Durga, call her Sati Call her Devi, call her Ma; Pray to her with a true heart And seek her blessings in the Navratra.”
SIMI BAJAJ –“Do not seek her in lifeless idols Widen your horizon and aim for the whole You will not have to go too far As she resides in the depth of your soul.”
SIMI BAJAJ –“Her love is unconditional and pure Her presence sweet, soft and calm Her heart is full of deep emotions Her touch, like a soothing balm She is the anchor of wavering ships Sailing on the rough waters of life She slips with ease into the role of a mother After perfecting those of daughter and companion If only the people of this world Treated Mother Earth with the same love As that of their own mother This world would be like heaven above.”
SIMI BAJAJ –“I see her Image in a helpless, old woman I see her countenance in the smile of a girl I sense her presence everywhere In tinkling anklets and skirts that swirl.”
SIMI BAJAJ –“Let the girl child enjoy every right equally And not only on these nine holy days Cherish and nurture her forever Make her the light of your life…”
SIMI BAJAJ –“She might be the wife of Lord Shiva She might be the mother of Ganesha But I see in her my mother the source of all compassion and love.”
SIMI BAJAJ –“The experience of Motherhood Gave a new dimension to Love The depth of feelings and emotions Moved, even the heavens and God above.”
SIMI BAJAJ –“The little girl smiled to herself As she reviewed her precious treasure Glittering bangles, bright dupattas And lots of coins to measure.”
SIMI BAJAJ –“The most pure relationship in this world Is that of a child and mother Treat me like your child, Oh Devi Ma! For me you are motherhood incarnate.”
SIMI BAJAJ –“The name they gave her was ‘kanjak’ But what it meant, she had no clue She was to be worshipped in the Navratras And showered with gifts, too!”
SIMI BAJAJ –“Words cannot express the depth of emotions That a man feels on becoming a father A role that grants him maturity and responsibility A role above that of a son, husband or brother I think of my father with deep affection He gave me roots and also wings I feel grateful for all that he did In shaping my heart, that loves and sings.”
SIMON AND GARFUNKEL –“Old friends, Old friends Sat on their park bench Like bookends. A newspaper blown through the grass Falls on the round toes On the high shoes Of the old friends. Old friends, Winter companions, The old men Lost in their overcoats, Waiting for the sunset. The sounds of the city, Sifting through the trees, Settle like dust on the shoulders Of the old friends. Can you imagine us Years from today, Sharing a park bench quietly? how terribly strange To be seventy Old friends, Memory brushes the same years, Silently sharing the same fear…”
SIMON CAMERON –“An honest politician is one who, which he is bought, will stay bought.”
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR-“One is not born a women one becomes one”.
SIMONE SIGNORET –“Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.”
SIMONE WEIL –“If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.”
SIMONE WELL –“The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.”
SIMONE WELL –“What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.”
SINTETOS –“A 60-day warranty guarantees that the product will self-destruct on the 61st day.”
SIOUX PRAYER –“Behold this buffalo, 0 grandfathers, which you have given us. He is the chief of all four-legged upon our Sacred Mother. From him the people live and with him they walk the sacred path.”
SIR A.P.HERBERT- “People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any act of parliament.”
SIR ARTHUR CONAM DOYLE –“”What the deuce is it to me?” he interrupted impatiently; “You say that we go round the serif we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work”.
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE –“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
SIR EDMUND HILLARY –“It is not mountain we conquer, but ourselves.”
SIR EDWARD COKE –“He is not cheated who knows he is being cheated.”
SIR GEORGE PORTER –“I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun’s energy… If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.”
SIR GEORGE PORTER –“If sunbeams were weapons of war, we could have had solar energy centuries ago.”
SIR ISAAC NEWTON –“I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”
SIR ISAIAH BERLIN –“Man cannot live without seeking to describe and explain the universe.”
SIR JAMES FRAZER –“The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux.”
SIR JAMES M. BARRIE –“If you have love, you don’t need anything else. And if you don’t have it, it does not matter much what else you have.”
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK –“What we see depends mainly on what we look for.”
SIR MARTIN REES –“It gives one a slightly different perspective on time scales. From astronomy one learns the immense time spans involved in cosmic evolution — billions of years. More importantly, we are still at the beginning of cosmic evolution, not the culmination. Even our sun is less than halfway through its life. So we should regard ourselves as part of the natural order, rather than the culmination of it… There’s as much time ahead of us as there has been in
SIR MARTIN REES –“We are the dust of long dead stars. Or, if you want to be less romantic, we are nuclear waste… The most wonderful thing we know about in the universe is life, and that’s the most complicated emergent phenomena we know of.”
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY –“They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.”
SIR ROGER L. ESTRANGE –“It is with your passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad master.”
SIR THOMAS BROWNE –“By compassion we make others’ misery our own, and so, by relieving; them, we relieve ourselves also.”
SIR WALTER RALEIGH –“Give me my scallop shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon, My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of glory, hope’s true gage, And thus I’ll take my pilgrimage.”
SIR WALTER SCOTT- “All men who have turned out worth any thing have had the chief hand in their own education.”
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL –“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL –“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”
SISMUND FREUD –“Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.”
SKYE THOMAS –“I’d rather be pissed off with my eyes wide open than to be blessed out with my eyes glazed over.”
SLMAN RUSHDIE- “Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.”
SNOOP DOGG –“Don’t get upset girl, that’s just how it goes/ I don’t love you hoes/I’m out the do. And I’ll be/Rollin’ down the street/’ Smokin’ indo/sippin’ on gin and juice.”
SOCRATES –“As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.”
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Many pesticides of different chemical composition, e.g. organochlorine compounds, organophosphates, pyrethroids, neonicotinoids, biological insecticides, antifeedants are used in this world to combat the destruction of vegetation in the farming land. The outcome are huge success in this trend, but it had a bad and pestilent disaster on both the environment as well as in living beings.DDT for example was used to a great effect among populations s to control mosquitoes spreading malaria and lice transmitting typhus , resulting in dramatic reductions in the incidence of both disease. But this and other pesticides may cause cancer and that their agricultural use was a threat to wildlife, particularly birds. They were shown to reduce the fertility in males exposed to them as well as their offspring,. In consequence they were banned in the US in 1972.in agricultural use worldwide under the Stockholm convention in spite of its limited current use today.
The question that arises continuously in the medical field is that, does the effect appear to be the result of changes in the DNA structural sequence, which inevitably may cause inheritable effect(s) other than mutation. The drop in the sperm count in the males was taken as an obvious damage to DNA, though many are not convinced by the result. The sperm is abnormal and few are infertile. Though the sperm count declines, yet off springs are still capable to reproduce. The males of these are still capable of breeding and carry the same symptoms of their parents.
The exposure to DDT in particular is associated with early pregnancy loss, a type as shown in a study involving Chinese textile workers.. It is also typically observed in women living in homes sprayed with DDT, There is a positive, monotonic, exposure-response association between preconception serum total DDT and the risk of subsequent early pregnancy loss. There is an alarming evidence that the females of highly exposed women may have more difficulty getting pregnant
Organochmicals in general, are toxic to a wide range of animals in addition to insects. They are highly toxic to aquatic life, including crayfish sea shrimps and many species fish but less toxic to other mammals Mostly they are reproductive toxicants for certain bird’s species and it is the major reason for the decline of flacons, birds of prey and other species.
Insect growth regulators are now developed to affect the target insect differently and also are much less likely to be toxic to mammals. One approach is the use of insect growth regulators which interferes with the ability of an insect to develop normally. These can interfere with the development of an insect in two ways. One is to disrupt the normal molting process. As insects feed and grow ,insects must shed their skin periodically that prevent the insect from shedding its skin properly or from forming the new skin at the right time. Both of these processes are critical for normal molting, and an insect eventually will die if it is unable to molt properly
The synthetic pyrethroids affect insect nervous systems Imidacloprid represents another insecticide class, the chloronicotinyls. Imidacloprid blocks the receptor sites to which Acetyl choline attaches, preventing its removal. However, most other traditional insecticides also attack the insect nervous system in some fashion or other. In all of these cases, nerve impulses are unable to travel normally from cell to cell.
In all instances, current scientific research is continuously updating and producing other agrochemicals which will inevitably have less if not all drastic side effects to living beings
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American beach resorts can be an excellent choice for families that want a fun-filled and relaxing vacation. Beaches offer a wide range of activities to insure the entire family will find something enjoyable during their stay.
Beach Activities
A day at the beach can include, swimming, jogging, walking, volleyball, flying kites, building sand castles, shell collecting, sunbathing, napping, picnics and best of all, relaxing. Bring a beach umbrella, beach chair, towels, sunblock, eyewear, camera, water, snacks, binoculars, a novel and don’t forget your bathing suit!
Boating and Fishing
Beach destinations often have a nice variety of boat cruises, including, nature cruises, scenic cruises, sunset cruises, , site-seeing, eco-tourism trips, kayaking adventures and fishing charters. The array of guided trips gives families a good choice of events, and there is something for everyone. For the more independent and experienced vacationer, boat and other watercraft rentals are another option.
When chartering a boat, it may be a good idea to consider the weather, traffic, and other factors, and plan ahead. Some boats can be chartered on short notice, while others may be booked up to a year in advance. Depending on the trip, season and vessel you might need sunblock, camera, insect repellent, water, snacks, a light jacket or even rain gear. Information on what to bring is typically available by contacting the captain beforehand.
On nature cruises you might encounter are any number of wildlife and waterfowl including deer, ducks, geese, herons, egrets, plovers and other shorebirds, whales, porpoises, otters, seals and more. Local guides know the best spots and are eager to guide visitors on trips that just cannot be viewed from land.
Fishing guides might fish for flounder, trout, bluefish, croakers, spot, drum, striped bass, shark, sea bass, tautog, tuna, billfish, mahi-mahi, wahoo or other fish, depending on the season, boat and destination. Other trips will feature crabbing, shrimping, clamming, or just exploring.
Crabbing
Crabbing is an enjoyable family vacation activity. Catching blue crabs does not require much in the way of equipment or skill. Crabbing can be done from a boat, pier, near bridges or along the shoreline. Crabbers need only a line, weight, bait and dip net for the traditional rig, or an inexpensive crab trap, which eliminates the need for a dipping crabs up. A more basic rig is just twine, a sinker and whatever bait you can obtain, tied on the line. The line is then lowered into the water, and gently raised once a tug is felt.
Serious crabbing baits include fresh fish, eels, bull lips and other baits but the most basic bait, chicken necks, work just as well on a hand line. The traps are used in a similar fashion, except that the trap is lifted sharply to close the doors suddenly and capture any crabs that are inside.
Crabs should be kept damp and cool and steamed as soon as possible. They are simple to cook, and can be steamed whole or chilled, then the backs removed and rinsed out before steaming. In either case, the crabs are sprinkled with crab seasoning and steamed until they are bright orange and serve with melted butter and a cold refreshment. Crab meat is also excellent in a variety of dishes and even freezes well for short periods.
Clamming
Clamming is a family activity everyone can enjoy on a beach vacation. Clams are easy to find, cook and handle. Locals catch clams by raking, wading, and signing. Some clamming areas can be reached on foot. Boaters can explore even more possibilities. You can also use a local guide to assist you on an enjoyable clamming trip.
Birdwatching
Many beach resorts are located very close to state parks, national parks, wildlife refuges and other bird santuaries. These areas offer plenty of natural habitats for songbirds, shorebirds, waterfowl, birds of prey and other birds.
Dining Out
After a day at the beach you can stop for a cool ice cream cone, have a nice dinner while watching the sunset, or visit a local niteclub. Beach destinations are also known for fresh seafood. Depending on the location, you might find fish, lobsters, crabs, shrimp, crawfish, oysters, clams, mussels, scallops or other seafood as the fresh catch. Local cuisine varies but most beach destinations will have something for everyone.
Festivals
Festivals are often an enjoyable activity during a beach vacation. Festivals usually combine, food, shopping and entertainment in one safe and easy to find location. Most beach resorts offer a series of festivals over the season. Popular themes usually include food celebrations, art, crafts, music, harvests, folklore, collecting and other interests.
Accommodations
Beach resorts usually offer a wide range of accommodations. Vacationers will find vacation rentals, condos, cottages, hotels, motels, inns, bed and breakfasts, camping facilities or other options.
Vacationers can sometimes get excellent rates and availability in the off season. During the peak seasons, rates are higher and accommodations are much harder to book. Visitors are advised to check for availability well in advance in most cases.
Experienced visitors often develop a long term business relationship with a beach resort vacation rental owner. Most small vacation rental businesses cater to travelers that visit several times over the season. These repeat visitors may find that a vacation rental or bed and breakfast business will offer them unbeatable pricing and ammenities in the long run, once they have returned a few times.
The author writes for several American beach resort destinations including Chincoteague Island Virginia, Virginia Beach Virginia and Hampton Roads Virginia.
Came across this Cooper’s Hawk with prey feeding. Shakes attributed to excitement and the bloody cold.
Have you been going on the same type of holidays for the last few years? Are you looking for a new, different experience while on holiday? A Tanzanian Safari holiday will be the most exotic you can get.
Mt. Kilimanjaro & Lake Tanganyinka
Tanzania is home to thousands of animals. It runs abundant with natural resources and is perhaps the most ecologically diverse nation in Africa. Mt. Kilimanjaro is located in Tanzania and so is Lake Tanganyinka, the highest mountain and deepest lake in the world respectively. It is the home of rare birds and plant life that will amaze you.
Lake Manyara
Your Tanzanian Safari can feature such things as a visit to Lake Manyara, where you may see tree-climbing lions. The Lake Manyara National Park is a scenic version of the African ecosystem. The lake itself is a beautiful expanse of freshwater that attracts all sorts of wildlife. The park area features a breathtaking forest full of exotic trees, birds and monkeys. This may be your only chance to see a flamingo in its natural habitat.
The Tarangire & Ngorongoro Conservation Area
You can also take a journey through the Tarangire reserve, Ngorongoro Conservation Area or the infamous Serengeti in a 4×4. Going into the untouched bush country will bring you closer to nature physically and spiritually. You will get a front row view of Oryx, buffalo, elephants and large birds of prey. Being able to observe the animals in their natural habitat is priceless.
Enjoy Unique Tanzanian Cuisine
When you come in from a long day’s safari, you will also be treated to great cuisine. The local Tanzanian cuisine mainly consists of smashed rice, Indian chapatis, beef, fish and fruit. Many of the dishes are prepared with coconut. If you have never had coconut before, you must be sure you are not allergic to coconut before you go. Tanzanians enjoy eating fruits such as avocadoes, mangoes and pineapples. Tanzania has a large Indian population so their cuisine is heavily influenced by this. They are also known for many different and unique tasting beer brands.
Book a Tanzanian Luxury Hotel
Your entire safari holiday evenings can be spent in the comfort of luxury hotels. You can take a day away from the adventure and lounge on the beaches of Kenya and Zanzibar, or spend your extra time enjoying other activities such as horseback riding and tours of the local coffee plantations.
There is so much to do; you will never have a moment to rest. You will need to plan a few days to recuperate from your holiday. So take the chance and plan your unforgettable Tanzanian African Safari Holiday.
Safari holidays to Tanzania, Kenya and Botswana can be tailor made by Luxury-safaris. Whether you are looking for a tented camp Kenya safari or a luxury Tanzania lodge safari the site offers something to suit most budgets and tastes.
10 Great Things To Do In Miami
1. South Beach Weekend Getaway
Living in Miami, it’s sometimes easy to lose sight of all our beautiful city has to offer. When you need a quick vacation, don’t forget that South Beach is close to home. While others need to travel the world over to visit the clear blue waters and unique art deco landscape, we can simply take a weekend to rejuvenate in our own backyard! Here’s how to make the most of your weekend South Beach get-away. The best time for locals to visit is off-season, May through August. You can get great rates at this time, and the streets and restaurants are quieter. Spring break weeks are the worst time for locals to visit, in March and April.
When you arrive on Friday evening, you can either check in at one of the many large grand hotels on the beach or you can see what the smaller eclectic hotels have to offer. One good bet is the Doubletree Surfcomber Hotel Miami (1717 Collins Avenue) which is within walking distance to almost everything. Their amenities include a data port in each room, two thousand feet of private beach and umbrella/towel service. A very different experience can be found at The Pelican. While still within walking distance to all South Beach attractions, it boasts the coolest choices of rooms anywhere. Each of the thirty rooms are decorated in their own style and named appropriately. If rooms like Flower Power, Big Bamboo, Best Whorehouse or Me Tarzan, You Vain sound appealing, you have to check this hotel out! You also might want to read our reader-selected Top Miami Beach Hotels.
Your best bet for tonight after checking into your hotel is dinner and people-watching on Lincoln Road. Full of stores, boutiques, art galleries, and museums, seven blocks of this ten-block mall have been closed to auto traffic. The unique atmosphere lends to some interesting people showing up, and you never know who you may see!
Most restaurants offer outdoor seating so you can enjoy the ambience and beautiful weather. Whether you feel like Italian (TiramesU Restaurant, Da Leo Trattoria), Cuban (Yuca Restaurant), New World (Pacific Time), or a blues cafe (Van Dyke Cafe), you can find it here on Lincoln Road! Spend the rest of the evening here so you can be refreshed for a full day tomorrow.
2. Miami MetroZoo
Miami MetroZoo is fast becoming one of the best zoos in the nation. Its climate allows it to keep a wide variety of animals from Asia, Australia and Africa like no other zoo in the country. One of the first free-range zoos in the country, the exhibits are entirely cageless. Animals are grouped according to their geographic territory and animals that live together peacefully in the wild are placed in exhibits together. Other animals in the area are separated by moats. Looking out across the African plains, for example, you see the animals apparently co-mingling much as you would on a safari. The trees, foliage and even soil mimic as closely as possible the native habitat of the animals.
Among the newest members of the zoo are the critically endangered baby addux “Abacus” and a critically endangered baby black rhino. You can also see white tigers, gibbons, Cuban crocodiles and a komodo dragon, as well as the regular lions, tigers and bears. The coolest animal stunt is the painting elephant- a real elephant, armed with a paintbrush and easel, creating a masterpiece!
Visiting Miami MetroZoo
Miami MetroZoo is a beautiful place to spend the day, with or without children. Come see what’s new! The zoo is open 9:30 – 5:30 daily (the ticket booth closes at 4:00) and the cost is $13.95 for adults, $9.95 for children ages 3-12. The zoo is located at 152nd Street and 124th Avenue.
3. Miami Seaquarium
Miami Seaquarium offers visitors an entertaining and educational experience found in very few locations in the United States. Our region’s tropical climate allows for year-round outdoor marine shows featuring dolphins, killer whales and other sea creatures. The Seaquarium also features exhibits of sea turtles, seals, sea lions, and our very own Florida Manatee. Be sure to check the Seaquarium website before you leave home, as the show schedule varies from day to day.
Location
The Seaquarium is located on the Rickenbacker Causeway between Downtown Miami and Key Biscayne. This site offers amazing views of Biscayne Bay and the city of Miami.
Admission
Admission to Miami Seaquarium is $29.95 for adults and $22.95 for children ages 3-9. If you’re planning to visit more than once this year, you can purchase an annual pass for an additional $10 per person.
4. Everglades
With 1.5 million acres of swamps, saw-grass prairies and sub-tropical jungles, Everglades National Park is one of the most unusual public parks in the United States. Located on the southern tip of Florida, the park is home to 14 rare and endangered species, including the American Crocodile, the Florida Panther and the West Indian Manatee. A large portion of the park is primitive, explored only by adventurists and researchers – but visitors have ample opportunity to walk, camp and canoe through the flat and watery park that is also known as “the river of grass.”
Five thousand years ago, the Everglades encompassed much of Florida, from Lake Okeechobee to the Gulf of Mexico.
Evidence of early Native American settlers in the Everglades dates back to the 16th and 17th centuries. As Europeans landed in St. Augustine, Florida and moved around the region, other Native American tribes, most notably the Seminoles, fled south into the inhospitable swamp. In the late 1800s, a few rugged settlers founded the village of Flamingo, located at the very tip of Florida (and the end of the swampy Everglades).
By 1934, Congress signed an act that allowed for the creation of a park in South Florida. Initially, the park would encompass 460,000 acres of federal, state and private lands – but over the years, land acquisitions would increase its size. Today, the Everglades is the third largest national park.
President Harry S. Truman dedicated the park in 1947 with these words: “Here are no lofty peaks seeking the sky, no mighty glaciers or rushing streams wearing away the uplifted land. Here is land, tranquil in its quiet beauty, serving not as the source of water, but as the receiver of it. To its natural abundance we owe the spectacular plant and animal life that distinguishes this place from all others in our country.”
In 1979, UNESCO declared Everglades National Park a World Heritage Site, for the area’s indigenous history and its diversity of flora and fauna.
Today, Everglades National Park is a protected area; however, it only encompasses one-seventh of the area known as the Everglades. Much of the northern stretches of the swamp are currently threatened by draining and development, and environmentalists warn that if the non-park areas are not protected, the world will lose an important and unique ecosystem.
5. Miami Beaches
Miami’s beaches offer a great opportunity to get some exercise or just enjoy some time in the sun! In this article, I take a look at a few of my favorite beaches, including a couple of lesser-used spots where you’ll be able to avoid the tourist crowd.
South Beach is the quintessential Miami beach experience. It’s the place to see and be seen and show off the product of months in the gym. South Beach isn’t clothing optional, but topless bathing is permitted. My husband loves to run on the paved jogging path that borders South Beach. The beach is located on Ocean Drive, across the street from many of Miami Beach’s famous nightclubs.
Virginia Key Beach is one of the most interesting beaches in South Florida. It’s located right off the Rickenbacker Causeway (on both the north and south sides) near the Miami Seaquarium. The location makes for easy access and some areas become crowded, but there are plenty of secluded spots (such as the one shown in the photo) if you’re willing to explore a bit. Don’t be surprised if you see me when you visit. I love to take my black lab for a walk/swim on the only area beach that allows leashed dogs.
Haulover Beach, located on Miami Beach between Sunny Isles Beach and Bal Harbour, is known around the world as Miami’s only legal “clothing optional” nude beach. If you’re skittish about shedding your swimsuit, never fear. The beach offers traditional sunbathing as well and the nude beach is clearly marked to avoid accidents! Haulover Beach is a fantastic surfing spot.
Bill Baggs State Park, located on the south end of Key Biscayne, is home to the famous Cape Florida lighthouse. The park provides sunbathing, swimming and history in the same spot! You can spend some time on the beach and enjoy a guided tour of the lighthouse. Fishing is also allowed from the seawall. The park also hosts Boater’s Grill, a full service restaurant.
Homestead Bayfront Park is a great option if you’re looking to avoid the tourist scene. Located in the southern portion of Miami Dade County, Bayfront Park offers swimming and boating options with a full-service marina. It’s located at 9698 SW North Canal Drive.
6. Miami Science Museum
Miami Science Museum offers children and adults alike an entertaining, educational experience. It’s a great place to visit, whether you’re on vacation, a school field trip or a weekend family outing.
Many world-class exhibits, featured on a rotating basis. Current exhibits include Music Musica, The Reclamation Project, Immersion Theatre, Newton’s Notions, and 40 Tons of Coral in New York City.
Miami Planetarium
The Museum also houses the Miami Planetarium, famous as the home of Jack Horkheimer’s Star Gazer television show. The planetarium features daily shows, surround sound, video projection, lasers and a four-story tall screen. In addition to the main planetarium, the museum is home to the Weintraub Observatory’s two powerful telescopes. The observatory operates from 8PM-10PM daily. A special treat occurs the first Friday of each month when the observatory hours are preceded by a special, free planetarium show.
Wildlife Center
The Falcon Batchelor Bird of Prey Center houses injured birds participating in the center’s rehabilitation program. The center also runs annual events including Snake Day and Lizard Day.
Miami Science Museum Location
The Museum is located at 3280 South Miami Avenue, just north of Coconut Gtove. From the north, take I-95 to exit 1A. After exiting, stay in the right lane and follow the signs to the Museum. From the south, take U.S. 1 north and turn right just before I-95.
Miami Science Museum Hours
Miami Science Museum is open every day except Thanksgiving and Christmas from 10 AM until 6PM.
7. Miami Children’s Museum
Miami Children’s Museum offers children the opportunity to explore their imaginations through educational play. My three children have been to the museum many times and look forward to each return visit!
Exhibits and Activities
The museum features a variety of permanent exhibits and a changing selection of traveling exhibits. The permanent collection includes:
# Bank
# Castle of Dreams
# Health & Wellness Center
# Pet Central
# Safety Zone
# Supermarket
# Television Studio
# Meet Miami
# The Sea and Me
# Ocean Odyssey
# Everglades Park
# You and Me and Teddy Bears Too
# Port of Miami
# Cruise Ship
# All About Art
# World Music Studio
Miami Children’s Museum Location
The Museum is located on Macarthur Causeway between Miami and Miami Beach. Their street address is 980 Macarthur Causeway. Parking at the Museum is operated by the Miami Parking Authority and costs $1 per hour, payable at self-service parking stations.
Hours of Operation
Miami Children’s Museum is open every day except Thanksgiving and Christmas from 10 AM until 6PM.
Admission
Admission to the Miami Children’s Museum is $12 for Florida residents and all children over twelve months of age. Non-resident adults pay a $15 admission fee.
8. Parrot Jungle Island
Parrot Jungle Island offers visitors a fun, educational opportunity to get an up-close look at tropical birds in replicas of their natural habitats. The attraction routinely hosts field trips and offers frequent educational programs.
Exhibits and Activities
Parrot Jungle Island is home to a large number of animals, including:
* Parrots (of course!)
* Penguins
* Flamingos
* Macaws
* Cranes
* Condors
* Ligers (a cross between a lion and a tiger)
* Tigers
* Llamas
* Skunks
* Kangaroos
* Reptiles
* Orangutans
* Monkeys
* Chimpanzees
* Baboons
The collection also features a wide variety of fish and plants. There’s something to satisfy the inner biologist in everyone!
Jungle Island Shows
Parrot Jungle Island offers three shows daily:
* Winged Wonders at 10:30, 1:15, and 4:15 in the Parrot Bowl
* Tale of the Tiger at 12:30, 3:15 and 5:40 in the Jungle Theater (the 5:40 show is on weekends and holidays only)
* Gator X-Treme at 12:00 and 2:35 Thursdays-Sundays with an additional 5:20 show on weekends in the Lower Level of the Serpentarium
Parrot Jungle Island Location
Jungle Island is literally on an island of its own, near downtown Miami. It is located at 1111 Parrot Jungle Trail and can be reached via I-395. Detailed directions are available on the Jungle Island website.
Hours of Operation
Parrot Jungle Island is open every day of the year from 10 AM until 6PM.
9. Monkey Jungle Park and Research Center
“Where the humans are caged and the monkeys run wild” – it’s more than a catch-phrase. Monkey Jungle in southern Miami-Dade County is a truly unique park. While homo sapiens walk through carefully constructed wire pathways, many species of primates scamper above your head, swing through trees and interact with each other in ways difficult to observe in captivity. Keep your eyes open; you never know who’s hanging around!
Monkey Jungle was started in 1935 when Joseph DuMonds and his wife brought the first six monkeys to this 10-acre plot to observe them living in their natural habitat. He chose Florida because its climate and ecology are very similar to their native home, Southeast Asia. When he started letting interested visitors into the park, he knew he could never cage his monkeys. If humans wanted to come, they would have to be the ones in cages! Today, the 30-acre Monkey Jungle is still owned and operated by Joseph DuMonds’ son, Frank. Research and observation of these free-range monkeys has led to some definitive works on primate behavior.
The park is well-organized with three demonstrations, each highlighting one of the major areas of the park- the wild monkey swimming pool, the Orang Utans, and the Amazonian Rainforest. The rainforest was in its prime in the early nineties. With the foliage and climate, it actually captured low-lying clouds and made its own weather systems with enough daily rainfall to be an actual rainforest. Hurricane Andrew destroyed it, and although it is making a comeback, it still has some time to go before it’s as splendid as it was.
One of the more fun activities at Monkey Jungle is feeding the monkeys. You can purchase peanuts and dried fruit at the entrance and leave treats for the monkeys in hanging baskets. They’re never far away, and they keep an eagle eye on those baskets- as soon as food is deposited, they run over, pull the basket up to the caged “roof”, and dig out the treats. But be careful- a hungry monkey almost dropped a basket on my head as I walked by!
Monkey Jungle is open daily from 9:30 – 5:00. For more information, call (305) 235-1611 or visit Monkey Jungle on the web. Have fun, but be careful- it’s a jungle out there!
10. Coral Castle
Coral Castle is an engineering marvel consisting of over 1,100 tons of carved coral rock located in Homestead, Florida. If you’re travelling from Miami down to the Keys, it’s well worth the stop. Coral Castle, also known as Rock Gate, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Ed Leedskalnin built Coral Castle with his own two hands over an almost 30-year period in the 1950s. He refused to allow anyone to watch him work, leading to speculation that the castle was constructed through the use of paranormal powers.
Visiting the castle is a marvelous experience. You truly cannot grasp the wonder of Ed’s engineering accomplishment until you view the massive chunks of coral rock with your own eyes. Visitors may take a 30-minute audio tour, offered in English, Spanish, French or German.
Coral Castle Location
Coral Castle is located at 28655 South Dixie Highway in Homestead. It’s at the intersection of SW 157th Avenue and US 1. Detailed driving directions are available on the Coral Castle website.
Hours of Operation
Coral Castle is open 8AM-6PM on Sundays through Thursdays and 8AM-9PM on Fridays and Saturdays.
Admission
Admission to the Coral Castle is $9.75 for adults (ages 13-61), $6.50 for seniors 62 and older, $5 for children (ages 7-12) and free for children 6 and under.