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Daily quote by Sand
For nature is the noblest engineer, yet uses a
grinding economy working up all that is wasted
to-day in to to-marrows creation;not a superfluous
grain of sand for all ostentation she
makes of expense and public works.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
, as quoted in
Sand: The Never-ending Story
(January 2009), by
Michael Welland
, California: University of California Press,
p. 1
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