Hints and tips:
...Although Henry III was so concerned with his that he reportedly brought in sod from other areas, early lawns were unlike those we have now....
...I had come to the Torngat Mountains National Park, 3,770 sq miles of uninhabited, pristine Canadian Arctic tundra north of the tree line....
...The panorama sweeps from the romantic granite outcrop where Edgar Allen Poe rambled in search of inspiration, down past the pristine sod and gracefully corkscrewing pathways of Olmsted’s fledgling park,...
...This seems like a very British application of sod’s law: buy an umbrella and it stops raining....
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