“One of the marked superiorities the English enjoy over other peoples is their ability to imbue the foreigner with a crippling inferiority complex the moment he sets foot on British soil.” MomentsEnjoyAbilityFeetComplexesBritishSoilSuperiorityForeignersInferiorityInferiority Complex Author:Pierre Daninos
“Remember that your tracks are one strand of the web woven endlessly in the hand of god. They're tied to those of the mouse in the field, the eagle on the mountain, the crab in its hold, the lizard beneath its rock. The leaf that falls to the ground a thousand miles away touches your life. The impress of your foot in the soil is felt through a thousand generations.” HandsRememberFallFeltGenerationsFeetRocksFieldsThousandMountainTrackMilesSoilTiedImpressMiceLeafsEaglesWovenStrandsMiles AwayHands Of GodCrabsThousand MilesLizards Author:Daniel Quinn
“We spend our lives hurrying away from the real, as though it were deadly to us. It must be somewhere up there on the horizon, we think. And all the time it is in the soil, right beneath our feet.” ThinkingRealOur LivesFeetSoilHorizonHurrying Author:William Logan
“As soon as I put my foot on Indian soil, my painting underwent a change not only in subject and spirit but in technique.” SpiritFeetSubjectsPaintingTechniqueIndianSoil Author:Amrita Sher-Gil
“A digging fork is a stout, short-handled tool with four flat tines about a foot long.... for weeding I use it delicately to nudge the soil loose from roots without breaking them.” LongUseFourFeetToolsRootsSoilFlatsWeedDiggingForksNudgeStout Author:Sara Bonnett Stein
“The thorny path bears some of the sweetest flowers that adorn life. And when with naked, bleeding feet we walk upon a flinty soil, we often find diamonds.” WalksPathFeetFlowerBearsNakedSoilDiamondSweetestBleeding Book:Aunt Jane's hero Source: Aunt Jane's hero
“The thought was, 'We're going to go to California, where the soil is black and ten feet deep, and there are no rocks, and there's gold in the hills.' The West becomes the surface onto which people project their fantasies, where once the future had been the place they projected their fantasies. So it's not just the war that ends the utopian communities, but what follows.” PeopleWarEndsBlackCommunityFantasyFeetRocksTenProjectsGoldWestSurfaceHillsCaliforniaSoilUtopian Author:Christine Jennings
“To be a modern person in 2012, you are often required to have some electronics in your life. And I do. I try to put that phone down, put the computer away, and get out there and hike in the woods; feel it in my feet, feel it in my hands; get out in the garden and feel the soil under my fingers, my fingertips and my fingernails. I try to be involved in nature in a very tactile way. I think that's important.” ThinkingWayFeelsTryingPersonsImportantHandsFeetModernInvolvedComputerGardenFingersPhonesWoodsSoilFingertipsElectronicsFingernailsTactile Author:Ed Begley, Jr.
“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
“Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard.” WorldFirstsTodayChristFeetLandFirst TimeFairsBelovedSoilRomePortionsPreachingGiftedPaganBishopsVineyards Author:Pope John Paul II