Driven by strong winds, the sand moves and covers everything in its path.

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Clearing the soil, arranging tons of sand colored rocks and then planting everything took nearly a month.

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In a stroke of good fortune, this place, Pinehurst, happened to be located in a part of North Carolina known as the Sandhills, because underneath the grass everything was sand, not soil.

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One of the reasons why Plakias and other southern getaways have remained relatively immune from mass tourism is the terrific summer wind that roars through everything, pelting beach-goers with sand and whipping up whitecaps on the sea.

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For humans are merely one form among many, which the world produces over and over again, not only in everything that lives but also in everything that does not live, drawn in sand, stone, and water.

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