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Salt is the only rock directly consumed by man. It corrodes but preserves, desiccates but is wrested from the water. ... It preserves things from corruption - even as it corrodes other things with its bite. A little of it fertilizes the land a lot sterilizes it.

Margaret Visser

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Margaret Visser
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: May 11
Writer
Rocks
Bite
Land
Consumed
Water
Bites
Littles
Salt
Little
Preserves
Even
Directly
Fertilizes
Things
Corruption
Wrested
Men
Rock
Corrodes

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