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Quotes About Terrains

on the west, the Atlantic Ocean; the Rhine and Danube on the north; the Euphrates on the east; and towards the south, the sandy deserts of Arabia and Africa. ^4
~ Edward Gibbon
I have come to see that mental states are also ecosystems. These sometimes friendly and at times hazardous terrains are natural environments embedded in the greater system of our character.
~ Joan Halifax
Immo age, et a prima dic, hospes, origine nobis insidias,' inquit, 'Danaum, casusque tuorum, erroresque tuos; nam te iam septima portat omnibus errantem terris et fluctibus aestas.
~ Virgil
His origins are become remote as is his destiny and not again in all the world's turnings will there be terrains so wild and barbarous to try whether the stuff of creation may be shaped to man's will or whether his own heart is not another kind of clay.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Governance is a descriptive label that is used to highlight the changing nature of the policy process in recent decades.In particular, it sensitizes us to the ever increasing variety of terrains and actors involved in the making of public policy.Thus governance demands that we consider all the actors and locations beyond the 'core executive' involved in the policy making process.
~ Unknown
in the Age of Television, our information environment is completely different from what it was in 1783; that we have less to fear from government restraints than from television glut; that, in fact, we have no way of protecting ourselves from information disseminated by corporate America; and that, therefore, the battles for liberty must be fought on different terrains from where they once were.
~ Neil Postman