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The whole world is full of dirt! |
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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)
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Gluey Dirt of Rice Field
(Tainan, Taiwan)
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Mica Flakes Mixed with Rain-Saturated Red Dirt (There can be cool stuff in dirt.) (Western North Carolina) |
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This Egyptian brickworks makes bricks out of dirt. Always has, for thousands and thousands of years. (Kom Ombo, Egypt) |
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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)
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Natural Dirt (and Rock) Formations
(Cappadocia, Turkey)
These are entirely natural. If you think they look like something naughty, you should be ashamed!
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Oppressed American Teenagers Forced to Dig Dirt in Family Flower Bed (Location Undisclosed) |
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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)
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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)