So is Emerson associated with the tranquil landscape of the old Middlesex town-the gentle hills, the long sweep of meadowland, the winding river, the woodland, and the pastures under the ample sky.
"From the Easy Chair, series 2"
George William Curtis
For all the fortune that is left to us is in meadowland, and in order to divide it, we have to sell it all.
"The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters"
George Sand, Gustave Flaubert Translated by A.L. McKensie
Chapter Nineteen: Abbotsbury Abbotsbury is an old unspoilt village, not on but near the sea, divided from it by half a mile of meadowland where all sorts of meadow and water plants flourish, and where there are extensive reed and osier beds, the roosting-place in autumn and winter of innumerable starlings.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson