Timothy Morton

The ideal job letter starts with a brilliant light. Then we realize that this brilliant light is actually sunlight, shafts of it, pouring through trees onto a thick bed of pine needles. Soft dusty resin floats in the sun shafts, invitingly. The smell of pine and sap rises from the forest floor. A twig snaps underfoot.

English Philosopher

Thérèse of Lisieux

I have always wanted to become a saint. Unfortunately, when I have compared myself with the saints, I have always found that there is the same difference between the saints and me as there is between a mountain whose summit is lost in the clouds and a humble grain of sand trodden underfoot by passers-by.

French Saint

Mary Pilon

With a smartphone in tow and a playlist humming, a runner may miss the crunch of leaves underfoot, the enthusiastic cheers of benevolent strangers, or even her own breath. And, for many runners, leaving the mobile device at home is the most liberating part of the sport.

American Journalist

J. Carter Brown

No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.

American Public Servant

Abdolkarim Soroush

If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms.

Iranian Philosopher

C. S. Lewis

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

British Writer

Brandon Boyd

As a surfer, I am interested in the ocean. And I am concerned and interested in all of these natural and cultural rumblings underfoot as well.

American Musician

Jacqueline du Pre

The intense perfumes of the wild herbs as we trod them underfoot made us feel almost drunk.

English Musician

Saint Augustine

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

Saint

Horace Greeley

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.

American Editor

Indicates something is directly on the ground where you walk.

Physical Presence

Suggests that something on the ground could be dangerous or cause stumbling.

Potential Hazard

Used to describe the feeling or condition of the ground's surface.

Surface Description

Implies interference with normal activities, often by pets or children.

Disruption

Refers to unplanned or surprising interruptions by someone or something.

Unexpected Obstacles

Usually used within household or family settings.

Domestic Context

 Parts of the island, including derelict buildings and underfoot conditions, may be dangerous. Oh, brilliant. That's what I like to hear. Is this the gate? I think this is the the only gate we've got. It feels like we breaking in. I promise we do have permission to be here, though.

Finding Baby Seals on an...

 The kinds of outcrops of rock that we've been looking at since we landed are more like ankle and knee high. And some of them are down underfoot like the mudstone that we drill. By the way, two years ago when we landed, if you said the first thing we drilled

Mars Up Close, Part 3:...

 they have a full way to engage in this change that's underfoot right now. And then I wonder, conversely, what sort of pitfalls have you seen business leaders fall into that are actually just not effective and are not supportive of efforts

How to foster true...

 works quietly underfoot. Every winter, sea ice starts small and delicate. Then it grows over millions of square miles. How is it possible that this freezer holds the key to our entire planet? Like a lung, sea ice breathes life

Male Polar Bear Fight...

 Or the notion that with the arrival of cities came social classes, sacred kings and rapacious oligarchs trampling everyone else underfoot. From our very first history lessons, we're taught to believe that our modern world,

A New Understanding of...

 but I thought what is it and I said that's Arctic and I went to the Arctic and I that was and you just everyone just got to see genja so maybe from what you underfoot which which she just translated the Arctic it's there's

Storytellers Summit Day...

 he walked through driving rain and searing sun. Over time, his devotion revealed the invisible world of spirits which exists alongside our own. He began to sense the kami, which animated the rocks underfoot,

The Japanese folktale of...

 At first glance, the Arctic feels brutally devoid of life, though a select group of animals have figured out a way to thrive. But the real force here works quietly underfoot.

Wolf Pack Takes on a...

 At first glance, the Arctic feels brutally devoid of life. Though a select group of animals have figured out a way to thrive. But the real force here works quietly underfoot.

The Unsung Heroes of the...

 At first glance the arctic feel brutally devoid of life. Though a select group of animals have figured out a way to thrive. But the real force here works quietly underfoot.

Underfoot