The Moving Sands, also known as the Flowing Sands (Liúshā (流沙), "flowing-sand", or "quicksand"), is an important feature in the mythological geography...

Frank Herbert which inspired the creation of Dune — "They Stopped the Moving Sands" — as well as unused chapters from Dune and its sequel Dune Messiah (1969)...

source says "Moving sands," but here the wording is changed to conform with that commonly used in English translations of the tale. "Moving Sands" (liusha...

1956 NFB film Sable Island by Allan Wargon, the 2003 NFB documentary Moving Sands by Phillipe Baylaucq, and more recently, an episode of Land and Sea....

that the moving dunes could "swallow whole cities, lakes, rivers, highways." Herbert's article on the dunes, "They Stopped the Moving Sands", was never...

barrier to Kunlun was the dangerous and difficult-to-cross Moving Sands, also known as Flowing Sands or Liusha. According to Shanhaijing (Chapter 16), Kunlun...

dunes constantly shift under the influence of the wind. As a result, moving sands dunes erode grasslands and residential areas. "When I woke up one morning...

be situated on an island in the Bohai sea, home to Taoist immortals. Moving Sands One of the obstacles the fictional version of the monk Xuanzang and companions...

themselves along with surrounding or intervening terrain, such as the Moving Sands. The eight mountain pillars include Kunlun, Jade Mountain, Mount Buzhou...

attended Goldsmiths, University of London. Sands trained on The Sevenoaks Chronicle as a news reporter, before moving to the Evening Standard, initially as...

Herbert, Brian; Anderson, Kevin J. (August 11, 2005). "They Stopped the Moving Sands". The Road to Dune. Tor Books. pp. 263–264. ISBN 0-7653-1295-6. "The...

sand away from the shore and form high sand hills, which are called "moving sands", as these sand dunes constantly change location depending on the direction...

Oil sands are a type of unconventional petroleum deposit. They are either loose sands, or partially consolidated sandstone containing a naturally occurring...

White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) is a United States Army military testing area and firing range located in the US state of New Mexico. The range was originally...

fluviatile mineral deposits occur intermingled with the above. Large areas of moving sands exist near Enotayevsk, where high dunes or barkhans have been formed...

the Weak River, the Black River, and intervening terrain, such as the Moving Sands. Jade Mountain was also in the vicinity. Various islands present an appearance...

mountain/pillars located in the eight cardinal directions supporting the sky Moving Sands: in mythological geography, a dangerous place to be traversed in route...

Moving Sands: a semi-mythological place to the west of China (the real Taklamakan Desert to the west of or in China is known for its shifting sands)...

Oleshky Sands is a semi-desert in Ukraine inland from the Black Sea. It consists of sand dunes or kuchuhury (locally),[clarification needed] which are...

calm the winds coming from the South and all bad weather. Calm the moving sands and whirlwinds." North – "Mother Earth, calm the North winds and clouds...

(11 km), wide, and thus resembled a flat valley or immense river-bed." The moving sands of the Kumtag are of a concern for the designers of the Golmud–Dunhuang...

The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service is a 1903 novel by Erskine Childers. The book, which enjoyed immense popularity in the years before...

Herbert to his agent Lurton Blassingame outlining "They Stopped the Moving Sands." "Oregon Dunes". Oregon Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2018-11-12. "25 Sep...

Christian Sylvester Sands (born May 22, 1989) is an American jazz pianist and composer. His third album for Mack Avenue Records, Be Water, was released...

was thought to possess cliffs insurmountable to normal mortals was the Moving Sands, a semi-mythological place also to the west of China (the real Taklamakan...

Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands refers to a group of 2010 action-adventure games developed and published by Ubisoft, with each version handled by...

the local vegetation, so this genus plays an important role in fixing moving sands and delaying further desertification. The biological property of Ammopiptanthus...

to paste ... O soul, come back! For the west holds many perils: The Moving Sands stretch on for a hundred leagues. You will be swept into the Thunder's...

White Sands National Park is a national park of the United States located in New Mexico and completely surrounded by the White Sands Missile Range. The...

(mythological) Kunlun Mountain, the Red River, intervening terrain, such as the Moving Sands. Jade Mountain was also in the vicinity. As the mythology of the Weak...