The phrase "a river of grass" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a landscape or environment characterized by extensive grasslands, often evoking imagery of flowing grass similar to a river.
Example: "The Everglades is often referred to as a river of grass, showcasing its vast wetlands and unique ecosystem."
Alternatives: "a sea of grass" or "a meadow of grass".
The Everglades is often referred to as a "river of grass," but it might just as accurately be described as a prairie of water.
It is a river of grass". But her final chapter announced "the eleventh hour" - end the destruction or lose the glades.
The former is 150 miles (240 km) long and 50 miles (80 km) wide and is technically a shallow, slow-moving river (the Everglades is often called a "river of grass").
Everglades, subtropical saw-grass marsh region, a "river of grass" up to 50 miles (80 km) wide but generally less than 1 foot (0.3 metre) deep, covering more than 4,300 square miles (11,100 square km) of southern Florida, U.S. Through it, water moves slowly southward to mangrove swamps bordering the Gulf of Mexico to the southwest and Florida Bay to the south.
The Everglades are a river of grass more than fifty miles wide and a hundred miles long — a landscape so innocent of topography that its mountains are measured in inches and even the largest predators try to keep a low profile.
There were buttonwoods along the banks, and just beyond them the vast sawgrass prairie that the late Marjory Stoneman Douglas so memorably labeled a "River of Grass," an endless sheet flow of fresh water, constantly nourishing the grass and all the other things that live and die here in an endlessly self-sustaining cycle.
With the state retaining an option to buy the rest of United States Sugar's land, there also remains a romantic adherence in some quarters to the dream of a restored river of grass from Lake Okeechobee to Florida Bay.
The boats are driven by redneck Seminoles who are so familiar with the landscape that they see an overlay of a roadmap on what looks like an endless river of grass.
Shark River Slough, a "slow-moving river of grass" that ambles southward at 100 feet a day, is a dominant feature.
A lot of people call the Everglades a swamp, but it's really a slow-moving river of grass.
Mark Andrew Thomas is a Florida-based wildlife photographer who grew up near the Everglades, a tropical wilderness of varied ecosystems fed by a slow-moving "river of grass" some 60 miles wide.
