Results show that while 'wilder' prairie-style green roofs are not always well-liked, they are more likely to be associated with fascination, creative thinking, and calm well-being than sedum green roofs.
DRIVE south from Rondonopolis, and for mile after mile the flat tableland stretches away to the far horizon, a limitless green prairie carpeted with swelling crops.
Last summer, after 15 years back on home ground in the Northeast, I found myself missing the sight of those prairie pillows of green.
Diggers and bulldozers began digging out the turf on the west bank, a mile north of the camp, churning the green prairie to brown clod, in August – accompanied by armed security guards.
Another shows a flock of contented-looking sheep being milked in Nei Mongol, China, the highest quality grazing grass in the country stretching away in a green prairie behind them.
"Behold the great mass of the thing, standing prouder than a neolithic stone," Lane writes in his review, "with green prairies beneath and billows of bright fog streaming off the hills and breaking around it like waves.
Behold the great mass of the thing, standing prouder than a neolithic stone, with green prairies beneath and billows of bright fog streaming off the hills and breaking around it like waves.
The reservations are breathtaking, the prairie grass high and green, the towns bursting with one quirky story after another.
The last president to vacation in Texas, of course, was Lyndon Johnson, whose ranch was not on the prairie but in the green hills of central Texas by the Pedernales River.
