Dick Black quotes

“We risk losing what nature is if we couch its value in human terms.”
-- Dick Black

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“Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their meaning: and as we approach the period of man's creation, our book becomes more clear, and nature seems to speak to us in language so like our own, that we easily comprehend it. But just as we begin to enter on the history of physical changes going on before our eyes, and in which we ourselves bear a part, our chronicle seems to fail us-a leaf has been torn out from nature's record, and the succession of events is almost hidden from our eyes.”

Source : William Wordsworth, Adam Sedgwick (1842). “A complete guide to the Lakes, comprising minute directions for the tourist, with mr. Wordsworth's Description of the scenery of the country, &c. and Three letters upon the geology of the Lake district, by prof. Sedgwick”

“We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.”

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”

“It is essential for me to become involved in another search, and 'search' is the proper word to use because it promises discovery along with the risk.”

“If you work around at-risk teen students, actually tell them you love them and have faith in their success. No one tells them that. No one.”

“Today the strategies of many companies in the real estate industry are premised on low interest rates, an assumption that has resulted in the rapid expansion of the real estate securitization business. This trend could be regarded as a risk factor, as it exposes the real estate sector to at least three potential problems: first, interest rate hikes; second, revisions to securitization business accounting standards; and third, overheating in the real estate market.”

“I'm brave to say that I won't take this sort of risk.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“Win without boasting. Lose without excuse.”

Source : Albert Payson Terhune (1930). “To the Best of My Memory”, New York : Harper

“I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.”

“Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were not pretending to love it.”