We write in sand, our language grows, And like our tide ours overflows.

-Waller, Edmund
  'Of EnglishVerse'.

America cannot be an ostrich, with its head in the sand.

-Wilson, (Thomas) Woodrow
  Speech, New Mexico,1 Feb.

Givea manthesecure possessionof a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him a nine years' lease on a garden, and he will convert it into a desert† The magic ofturns sand to gold.

-Young, Arthur
PROPERTY1787  Journal entries, 30 Jul and 7 Nov, published in Travels in France and Italy (1794).