“However, the balloon, lightened of heavy articles, such as ammunition, arms, and provisions, had risen into the higher layers of the atmosphere, to a height of 4,500 feet. The voyagers, after having discovered that the sea extended beneath them, and thinking the dangers above less dreadful than those below, did not hesitate to throw overboard even their most useful articles, while they endeavored to lose no more of that fluid, the life of their enterprise, which sustained them above the abyss.” ThinkingLosesSeaFeetDangerArmsHigherHeavyAtmosphereHeightEnterpriseArticlesLayersAbyssProvisionFluidRisenBalloonsAmmunitionOverboard Book:The Collected Works Of Jules Verne Source: The Collected Works Of Jules Verne
“Rising seas create a higher baseline for future storm surges. The New York City Panel on Climate Change has projected that coastal waters may rise by two feet by 2050 and four feet by the end of the century.” MayTwoEndsWaterCitiesFourSeaFeetCenturyNew YorkHigherClimateClimate ChangeStormRisingNew York CityCoastal Author:Nicholas D. Kristof
“Processions that lack high stilts have nothing that catches the eye. What if my great-granddad had a pair that were twenty foot high, And mine were but fifteen foot, no modern stalks upon higher, Some rogue of the world stole them to patch up a fence or a fire.” IfsWorldEyeFireFeetModernMinesHigherTwentiesPairsWhat IfHeritageFifteenFencePatchesStalkingRoguesProcessionStiltsPatch Up Book:Poems of William Butler Yeats Source: Poems of William Butler Yeats
“Conventional turbines only work up to 200 feet, but capturing a small fraction of the global wind energy at higher altitudes could be sufficient to supply the current energy needs of the globe.” NeedsEnergyFeetWindHigherCurrentsSufficientConventionalGlobesFractionsTurbinesWind Energy Author:Saul Griffith
“Why does that pharmacist have to be two and a half feet higher than everybody else? Who the hell is this guy? "Clear out, everybody. I'm working with pills up here. I'm taking them from this big bottle and then I'm gonna put them in the little bottle. That's my whole job. I can't be down on the floor with you people."” PeopleLittlesDoeI CanTwoWholeBigsFunnyJobsGuyHalfHellClearComedyFeetHigherBottlesThis GuyPillsPharmacist Author:Jerry Seinfeld
“The foot of the heavenly ladder, which we have got to mount in order to reach the higher regions, has to be fixed firmly in every-day life, so that everybody may be able to climb up it along with us. When people then find that they have got climbed up higher and higher into a marvelous, magical world, they will feel that that realm, too, belongs to their ordinary, every-day life, and is, merely, the wonderful and most glorious part thereof.” PeopleWorldFeelsMayAbleOrderLiteratureWonderfulFeetHigherOrdinaryFixedRealmsGloriousClimbsHeavenlyRegionsMarvelousLaddersDay Life Author:E. T. A. Hoffmann
“Can anyone be so foolish as to believe that there are men whose feet are higher than their heads, or places where things may be hanging downwards, trees growing backwards, or rain falling upwards? Where is the marvel of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon if we are to allow of a hanging world at the Antipodes?” IfsMenWorldBelieveMayFallGrowingTreeFeetHigherRainGardenFoolishBackwardsBabylonRain FallingAntipodes Author:Lactantius
“The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.” MenLongEnoughGoalFeetHigherPerseveranceAddictionClassroomLaddersFocus On GoalsOff To College Book:Selected works of Thomas H. Huxley Source: Selected works of Thomas H. Huxley
“If you live on an atoll and you get a warning by radio that a big wave is coming and everyone is told to move to higher ground, where are you supposed to go on these islands? There is none. The highest ground is four-meters (around 13 feet) above sea level, meaning you'd be safer in a coconut tree. How, though, are you supposed to get your grandfather, grandmother and grandchildren up there?” IfsBigsMovingLevelsFourTreeSeaFeetGoes OnHigherHighestWaveRadioIslandsGrandmotherWarningGrandfatherGrandchildrenMeterCoconutsGrandmother And GrandchildrenHigher Ground Author:Enele Sopoaga
“Many of these failures can be laid at the feet of the awful state of American higher education, and especially the way in which our secular universities have divorced their instruction from timeless truths like faith and freedom. Many of the professors at these places plainly don't respect the founders and, in particular, the religious foundation of the founders.” WayStatesReligiousFeetParticularHigherFoundationUniversityAwfulProfessorsInstructionFoundersSecularTimelessDivorcedHigher Education Author:Paul Kengor
“This is the ancient land, where wisdom made its home before it went into any other country... Here is the same India whose soil has been trodden by the feet of the greatest sages that ever lived... Look back, therefore, as far as you can, drink deep of the eternal fountains that are behind, and after that look forward, march forward, and make India brighter, greater, much higher, than she ever was.” LooksHas BeensMadeCountryHomeBehindsGreaterFeetLandHigherDrinkEternalIndiaAncientSoilMarchOther CountriesSageFountainBrighter Author:Swami Vivekananda