Sand Spit

Famous quotes containing the words sand and/or spit:

    This sand seemed to us the connecting link between land and water. It was a kind of water on which you could walk, and you could see the ripple-marks on its surface, produced by the winds, precisely like those at the bottom of a brook or lake. We had read that Mussulmans are permitted by the Koran to perform their ablutions in sand when they cannot get water, a necessary indulgence in Arabia, and we now understand the propriety of this provision.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    He shall eat flowers,
    Chew honey and spit out gall. They shall all smile
    And love and pity him.

    His death shall be by drowning.
    Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)