There once was a grain of sand, lonely and afraid. He did not amount to much. He was not very big. He just wasn't! 
He, himself, and the other grains of sand were a part of a mighty dune, carried here and there, before the wind. 

There was a mighty city built by man before the dune and the wind carried the little grain of sand and all the other grains of sand and buried the city and it was lost to man. The grain of sand started to think, "The wind brought me here and we grains of sand are powerful." 

He was carried to the sea and washed on many foreign shores. Eventually, he was washed ashore on a beach on a remote island. One dark night, a lumbering turtle cast him and the other grains of sand aside, then pushed him back over her eggs, newly laid. After it had become to be warm, a small turtle hatched, and the grain of sand thought, "The sea brought me here and we grains of sand are nurturing." 

The grain of sand rode the back of the tiny turtle, which carried him back to the sea and the grain of sand was carried to another far shore. He was scooped up by a mighty machine, bound together with other grains of sand and rocks and cement, and became the foundation of a great building. Again, he thought to himself, "The tiny turtle and the sea brought me here and we grains of sand are constructive and useful." 

Time wore the building down and the grain of sand was free. 

The wind blew him and other little grains of sand together again, forming another mighty dune. There were grains of sand he had seen before and ones that were new to him, all in the mighty dune, like the one that had been buried the city. 

He reflected on his journeys and the lessons that he had learned - from the city engulfed by him and the other grains of sand and the wind, and the turtles that he and the other grains of sand had nurtured and the sea that carried him there, and the building he had been part of with the other grains of sand, and the gravel, and the rocks, and the cement, and the little turtle upon whose back he rode, and of the other little grains of sand, familiar and new. 

And he said to the other grains of sand, and to the gravel, and to the rocks, and to the cement, and to the wind, and to the sea, and to the little turtle, "Thank you for teaching me that We is stronger than just You or Me ."