"Standing on J. P. Brown's land, south side, I observed his rich and luxurious uncut grass-lands northward, now waving under the easterly wind. It is a beautiful camilla, sweeping like waves of light and shade over the whole breadth of his land, like a low steam curling over it, imparting wonderful life to the landscape, like the light and shade of a changeable garment. . . . It is an interesting feature, very easily overlooked, and suggests that we are wading and navigating at present in a sort of sea of grass, which yields and undulates under the wind like water; and so, perchance, the forest is seen to do from a favorable position. Early, there was that flashing light of waving pine in the horizon; now, the Camilla on grass and grain."
--Henry David Thoreau, July 4, 1860
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