Sand grains magnified 110-250 times reveal each grain is unique.
螺旋壳的尖端已经脱落，变成了一粒沙子。经过海浪的反复翻滚，这种螺旋状的沙粒已经变成乳白色。它被一些珊瑚、一个粉红色的贝壳碎片、一个有孔虫(一种原生动物)和火山物质所包围。图片版权归加里·格林伯格博士所有。
A handful of sand grains selected from a beach in Maui and arranged on a black background.图片版权归加里·格林伯格博士所有。
Every grain of sand in the world is unique when viewed through a microscope.
Sand magnified 250 times.图片版权归加里·格林伯格博士所有。
Sand Magnified.Photo by Yanping Wang.
Sand magnified 250 times.Photo via Tumblr.
Sand Magnified Around The World
明尼苏达州温尼比古什湖周围的冰川沉积砂含有丰富的苏必利尔湖盆地的火成岩和变质矿物的沉积物。样品包括粉红色的石榴石、绿色绿帘石、富含铁的红色玛瑙、黑色磁铁矿和赤铁矿。图片版权归加里·格林伯格博士所有。
来自日本南部的放大的星沙颗粒，由微小生物的钙化壳组成。Photo by Richard Mouser Williams.
Beautiful Framed Seashell
Neat idea for decorating a beach house, or any space you want a splash of the sea. The frame is 14″x17″, and yes, it’s a real seashell. Sold by Art.com for $119.99.
放大的星沙颗粒。Photo byRichard Mouser Williams.
膨大星:来自冲绳的星形沙粒。这些微小的有孔虫，一种原生动物，分泌美丽的星形碳酸钙壳，或测试。Photo via sandgrains.com.
Coral sand magnified one-hundred times using transmission electron microscopy, brightfield mode.By Dr. David Maitland, Feltwell, UK, microscopyu.com
Many grains of sand are tiny crystals (shiny, flat-sided solids). Sand from Zushi Beach, Japan, contains what looks like a sapphire crystal. The crystal is larger than the surrounding grains and has survived eroding because of its hardness and quality.图片版权归加里·格林伯格博士所有。
小海胆壳的碎片，放大了一百倍。由海洋生物残骸形成的生物成因沙是许多热带海滩的主要成分。通过popgive.com。Originally found at “popgive.com/2009/01/tiny-work-of-art-in-each-grain-of-sand.html”
A magnified view of the tropical beach sand from the Caribbean island of St. John (U.S. Virgin Islands). The grains include porous fragments of brightly-colored corals, minute foraminiferan shells, fragments of sea shells and shiny, star-shaped sponge spicules. Originally found at “waynesword.palomar.edu/ww0704b.htm”
Sand Photographer Dr. Gary Greenberg
Every grain of sandis a jewel waiting to be discovered. That’s what Dr. Gary Greenberg found when he first turned his microscope on beach sand. Gemlike minerals, colorful coral fragments, and delicate microscopic shells reveal that sand comprises much more than tiny beige rocks.
作者兼摄影师加里·格林伯格博士是一位视觉艺术家，他创造性地将艺术与科学结合起来。他拥有伦敦大学学院生物医学博士学位，拥有高清3d光学显微镜的17项专利。格林伯格博士住在夏威夷的Haiku。
Dr. Greenberg has published two books:
- A Grain of Sand: Nature’s Secret Wonder
- The Secrets of Sand: A Journey into the Amazing Microscopic World of Sand
The Universe Of Sand
Carl Saganfamously remarked “the total number of stars in the universe is greater than all the grains of sand on all the beaches on the planet Earth.” University of Hawai’i researches estimate thatthe total number of ‘all’ grains of sand on the whole planet could be approximately 75 billion billion. Scientists still believe there are more stars in the Universe.
Speaking of planets: If a grain of sand represented an entire galaxy; so each grain of sand, or galaxy, contains 100’s of billions of stars, you would need to fill six rooms full of sand to contain all the galaxies in the known universe. If you drilled a tiny hole in one of the grains of sand, ‘our Milky Way universe,’ that would be the area that we have been capable of seaching for planets so far. About2000 planets have been discovered so far.
听起来是个有趣的项目!
Unfortunately I do not have the rights to give you permission. You would need to get Dr. Gary Greenberg’s permission. I think if you are making a quilt with loosely rendered grains of sand…you would not need permission. If on the other hand you are going to copy a photo as to exact placement of sand grains, etc…you would. Hope the quilt comes out fabulous!
Thanks for sharing your knowledge! In the East, we call what you want to know is the Dao (The Way). Of course, everything you want to know which explained in this precious book, please spend your times to read the
Zhuan Falun Book
Hi,
我正准备推出关于普通人或普通人的网站。我在想一个名字，然后想到了沙粒。当我搜索网页时，我偶然发现了这个网站，它是完美的!那些孤零零的沙粒里的美令人震惊，让我相信我的名字可能正适合我的网站关于普通人。太棒了。
in awe!
THANKU!!!
We (the humans), don’t deserved this beautiful
World.
It was created for us and for us to be its stewards. Just do the best you can and try to show others how to do the same. Blessings. ^_^
Unbelievable what really is a grain of sand. Our eyes can view sand as all one color scheme,but the individual beauty is hidden from our naked eye.
这真是太神奇了，我其实对这些东西不感兴趣，但很兴奋和惊讶。
Those of us who’ve love a walk on the beach will never see it quite the same after viewing these photos. Loved the entire presentation.
Something to think about.
Just reminds me how YHWH created each one of us as unique individuals. Although we may see ourselves as unimportant we are precious in God’s eyes, just as He made each grain of sand special, so He created us.
Check C.S, Lewis who so appropriately said “There is no ordinary human.., we are All Divine beings and if we could see the dullest and uninteresting person as he appears in heaven, we would want to worship him, etc”
Great! You have to see this wonder of God.
每一个都是独一无二的，就像我们人类、动物和树木一样;2022欧洲杯葡萄牙vs德国在神的创造中，每一种生命都是宝贵的。
Let us never stop being amazed, grateful and respectful of all life!
I’m in AWE! And some people still wonder if there is a God? Who, other than a God that loves us, could have created such a Wonder?
This is amazing!
This once again prove that God is the creator. Man can make a shaving blade and it looks good to the naked eye. But if you looked into it with a magnifying glass the blade looks like a hacksaw. But God’s creation the more one looked into it with a magnify glass the more perfect it looks. Psalm 19:1 says: The heavens declare the glory of God.
这真是太棒了。
A project for art students is to match paint color to a handful of small rocks, always an eye opening lesson, for every rock has it’s own beautiful color. Showing the wonders beyond the rocks right under our beach toes leaves me astounded. This beauty of our world,’ Grains of Sand’, should be in every classroom beyond the art room.
我80岁了。我以为我看过或读过所有我感兴趣的东西。我还差得远呢!这绝对是我见过的最美丽的事物之一。Robert
I love this article. It is beautiful and so informative, Thank you for sharing. I, too, love Hawaii and spend summers on Kauai from Rancho Mirage, California.
Thank you
Frances Miller
The only thing set in stone is stone itself and it’s destiny is to become grains of sand ‘
too soon to be famous quote by D Raymond
Its wonderful to see this.God made all this for us to enjoy. What a great God he is. The pictures are great. I really enjoyed this.Thanks.
This is extremely false and not plausible. Sand is a rock that has been whiddled down to a tiny smooth rock. There are not little tiny sea shells inside a grain of sand that is the most idiotic thing I’ve ever read. You should rethink this article and delete it.
No one said there was tiny sea shells in a grain of sand!! These photo’s are sand magnified hundreds of times. No one made this up, it is fact!
I can’t comprehend this subject so I’ll leave it for the brains to complicate.
Sand is sand is sand. so what.
Can sand be turned into fuel????if so how????
玛丽安娜·维拉尼-你是认真的吗?lol
I think sand should be banned. I have enough evidence now to completely debunk sand and expose all those who support sand as criminals and frauds! Obama, please start the war on sand immediately!
Some say all sand is the same, some marvel that its variety proves the existence and beneficence of god (nope), some conjure great applications for sand (only leaving out all of the details), and some doubt the veracity of the images. This comments section is quite like sand – highly varied and curious to behold but pretty stupid.
absolutely amazing and incredible this is. I could look at grains of sand all day long it’s just so beautiful and interesting!. As an artist I see them like tiny sculptures and all put together, they’re like one big beautiful painting …thank you for doing this really inspiring!
MY SON was in the national guard. Toured Iraq and Afgainhistan. Brought sand back from Iraq. I often wonder what is in that bottle of sand. We lost him to PTSD. SO, the sand is in a water bottle on my antique cabinet.
Just a thought of what is in that bottle. He told us there we nuclear plants near their base.
I enjoyed the pictures. I will share them with my grandson. He love rocks. They studied them in second grade. He is now in sixth.
Sincerely,
LOIS FONTENOT
Some of the most beautiful images I have ever seen. Am going to try to purchase the book.
Modern machines (electron microscope or a video capturing a split second event) can reveal amazing things to us, but people like Marianna Villani, in the comment section on this page, find scientists and their work hard to believe. People like her suffer from a condition where trusting scientific information that is beyond basic knowledge is too difficult, especially if they are convinced it conflicts with their religious faith. In fact, some are easily convinced of impossibly unbelievable things if the subject is religion. She lives on a flat Earth, no planets in her universe, no atomic particles, nothing is real that is complicated to understand, unless it’s a conspiracy.
Her condition is called ‘closed-mindedness” not science vs religion. “My mind is made up, don’t confuse me with the facts!” Her world is only black/white, good/bad, true/false, right/wrong! No possibility of a greater sense of wonder, appreciation and understanding of our existence, (like DNA and genome sequencing). And finally, scientific proof revealing how and why our thoughts and attitudes impact our health. Check out ‘Emoto’s Lessons of Water’!