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The whole world is full of dirt!

The height of the Amazon varies as much as 30 feet a year, so at low water the banks are nothing but naked dirt. The river, of course, is brown with dirt. (Near Iquitos, Peru)

 

Gluey Dirt of Rice Field (Tainan, Taiwan)

Mica Flakes Mixed with Rain-Saturated Red Dirt (There can be cool stuff in dirt.) (Western North Carolina)

This Egyptian brickworks makes bricks out of dirt. Always has, for thousands and thousands of years. (Kom Ombo, Egypt)

Extremely Dusty Black Nile Dirt (Kom Ombo, Egypt)

Pile of "Holy Dirt" around a tree near a shrine awaits use by faithful seeking miraculous healing through dirt. (Chimayó, New Mexico)

Natural Dirt (and Rock) Formations (Cappadocia, Turkey) These are entirely natural. If you think they look like something naughty, you should be ashamed!

Oppressed American Teenagers Forced to Dig Dirt in Family Flower Bed (Location Undisclosed)

This mosque, made entirely of dirt, won the Agha Khan Award for Architecture in 1986. (Yaama, Niger)

Dirt Road Most human roads are made of dirt. Picture shows bits of crushed prehistoric stone tools visible in the dirt after a rain. (The road has been in use for a long time.) (Chuska mountains, Navajo Reservation)

Dirt Foundations of Roosevelt College. UCSD, like all universities, is built on dirt. (UCSD Campus)

Road Dust No action is too small to move dirt, sometimes a lot of it. (North Dakota)

Dirt Wall All through history people have used dirt to separate themselves from their neighbors. (Peruvian Andes)