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A saying in the Netherlands that came about because about 2/3 of the country was underwater, and raised from it through dykes, dunes and pumps. This process is also called land reclamation, and originated here because of the prevention of floods. As a result of people meddling with what used to be swampland, so much of the landscape of the Netherlands is artificial, uncanny even.