There is also plenty of wood-thin and thorny, but sufficiently abundant to diversify the aspect of what would otherwise be a most dreary and monotonous region.
"Impressions of South Africa"
James Bryce
How amply spread were the numerous valleys with many trees to diversify them and how grandly planted were the higher hills with forest!
"See America First"
Orville O. Hiestand
There were none of those cataclysms of mire and sloughs of black mud and over-tall grasses, none of that miasmatic jungle with its noxious emissions; it was just such a scene as one may find before an English mansion-a noble expanse of lawn and sward, with boscage sufficient to agreeably diversify it.
"How I Found Livingstone"
Sir Henry M. Stanley