We used to say that the motivations for tourists were sea, sun and sand ... the three new S's are safety, security and sanitation.

The state of Nevada has a public safety responsibility for tourists, and that should be accounted when they are factoring the money.

Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf/ Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself.

I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar

The children had had an argument once about whether there was more grass in the world or more sand, and Roger said that of course there must be more sand because of under the sea; in every ocean all over the world there would be sand, if you looked deep down. But there could be grass too, argued Deborah, a waving grass, a grass that nobody had ever seen, and the colour of that ocean grass would be darker than any grass on the surface of the world, in fields or prairies or people's gardens in America. It would be taller than tress and it would move like corn in the wind. ("The Pool

you're kinda like the shifting sand in a way.