“Organic life beneath the shoreless waves Was born and rais’d in Ocean’s pearly caves First forms minute, unseen by spheric glass, Move on the mud, or pierce the watery mass; These, as successive generations bloom, New powers acquire, and larger limbs assume; Whence countless groups of vegetation spring, And breathing realms of fin, and feet and wing.” FirstsMovingFormBornGenerationsGroupsFeetMinutesOceanMassSpringWingsAssumingGlassesWaveBreathingRealmsAcquireUnseenMudCavesLimbsPierceVegetationFinsOrganic Life Author:Erasmus Darwin
“Two days ago we waded through the mud out to this grave beneath the pines at the foot of the hill to place a Christmas wreath on it, hoping he would look down from the Paradise of Ten Billion Trees and Unrationable Dog Biscuits and pity us.” LooksTwoTreeFeetDogTenBillionsGravesPityHillsParadiseMudTwo DaysBiscuitsWreaths Author:Eugene O'Neill
“Under that light rain, beaming in the night game, can't stop now, keep moving, no brake pads. Came here to prove a point, live my life on the field, make history in between the base paths. And compete against the fear that is in me, that's my only barrier and I swear I'm going to break that. From the mud, the cleats that we dragged through the feet, this is that moment and you cannot take it back... This is what you make of it, yeah we play to win, live it like we're under the lights of the stadium. Fight, until the day that God decides to wave us in, right, until he waves us in.” PlayMomentsLightMovingNightFightingGamesWinningBreakPathFeetFieldsProveRainYeahWaveBarriersThat MomentSwearLiving My LifeMudKeep MovingStadiumsPadsBrakePlay To WinCleats Author:Macklemore
“Sure, this country has a black president, but when you look at a black president, President Obama is left with his foot stuck in the mud from all of the Republicans with the way he's treated. We have moved in the right direction, and there have been improvements, but we still have a long ways to go in the country.” WayLooksLongHas BeensStillsCountryLeftBlackPresidentFeetRepublicanMovedImprovementStuckTreatedPresident ObamaMudLong WayRight DirectionLong Way To Go Author:Hank Aaron
“For some of us, the soul is resident in the sole, and yearns ceaselessly for light and air and self-expression. Our feet are our very selves. The touch of floor or carpet, grass or mud or asphalt, speaks to us loud and clear from the foot, that scorned and lowly organ as dear to us as our eyes and ears.” SoulSelfLightEyeSpeakClearAirFeetExpressionEarsDearLoudGrassOrgansSoleMudCarpetSelf ExpressionResidentsScornedAsphalt Author:Barbara Holland
“Every morning is a battle between the superego and the id, and I am a mere foot soldier with mud and a snooze button on her shield.” MorningFeetBattleMereSoldierEvery MorningButtonsMudShieldsSuperegoSnooze Button Author:Catherynne M. Valente
“A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot.” PlayGirlFeetStandingMotherhoodInnocenceMudDollsPlaying GamesGirlyBaby GirlMom And DaughterGirl Child Author:Alan Beck
“It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi mud.” FeetBeatsTreatsDancingDancerMudMississippiMississippi River Author:James Kavanaugh
“I would say that there exists a thousand unbreakable links between each of us and everything else, and that our dignity and our chances are one. The farthest star and the mud at our feet are a family; and there is no decency or sense in honoring one thing, or a few things, and then closing the list. The pine tree, the leopard, the Platte River, and ourselves-we are at risk together, or we are on our way to a sustainable world together, we are each other's destiny.” WorldWayTogetherStarsChanceDestinyRiskOne ThingTreeFeetThousandRiversDignityListsLinksMudDecencyClosingChances AreUnbreakableLeopardsPine Trees Author:Mary Oliver
“And that we cannot go to space with our feet in the mud. Nor can we in fact turn ourselves into an eco-sensitive hallucinogenic-based culture on Earth unless we fuse these dichotomous opposites. It is only in a coincidencia oppositorum, a union of opposites, that does not strive for closure, that we are going to find cultural sanity. And this is the thing that the entheogens, the hallucinogens, deliver with such clarity and regularity. They raise paradox to a level of intensity that no one can evade.” DoeFactsEarthTurnsCultureSpaceLevelsFeetOppositesRaisesUnionsStriveClaritySensitiveParadoxIntensitySanityMudClosureEcoRegularityFuseHallucinogens Author:Terence McKenna
“Turtles hate heights. They don't even like being a few feet off the ground. It's the main reason they have resisted evolution for so long-fear of heights. Turtle thinking goes thus: Sure, first our scales turn into feathers and the next thing you know we're flying and chirping and perching on trees. We've seen it happen. Thanks, but we're staying right here in the mud where we belong. You're not going to see us flying full-tilt boogie into a sliding glass door.” ThinkingKnowsFirstsLongReasonHappensHateTurnsNextDoorsTreeFeetEvolutionGlassesFlyingScalesThanksHeightStayingMudFeathersTurtlesTiltBoogieFeet Off The Ground Author:Christopher Moore
“That is one of the hardest things I have ever had to do in my life, running through the jungle in heels. Because also, mud was often times three feet deep, and that was full on for sure.” RunningThreeFeetHardestHeelsMudHardest ThingJungle Author:Bryce Dallas Howard
“You can remain in the world for any number of years, but don't let the world take hold. Don't let the world take hold of the inside world. There is the example of the lotus. It stays deep down in the mud. It comes up to the light, and it can't stay without water because it would die. But it does not get mixed up either with the mud or the water. You have seen the lotus; even if the water comes it just goes off again. Now, when they talk of God, they always say 'the lotus eyes, the lotus feet' because of this inner significance.” IfsWorldYearsDoeLightEyeDiesWaterNumbersFeetExampleCome UpSignificanceMudDeep DownLotuses Author:Sathya Sai Baba