Pampas Quotes

“Were the “pampas,” perhaps, flatter than the land they were crossing? He doubted it; what could be flatter than a horizontal plane?”
― César Aira, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter

“One extraordinary feature of the private quintas or orchards and plantations in the vicinity of the Saladeros was the walls or hedges. These were built entirely of cows' skulls, seven, eight, or nine deep, placed evenly like stones, the horns projecting. Hundreds of thousands of skulls had been thus used, and some of the old, very long walls, crowned with green grass and with creepers and wild flowers growing from the cavities in the bones, had a strangely picturesque but somewhat uncanny appearance.”
― William Henry Hudson, Far Away and Long Ago: A History of My Early Life

“Los pastizales se bamboleaban con el viento cuando salimos y parecía la pampa un mar de dos colores: cuando se dejaban vencer los tallos, era blanca y destellaba como espuma; cuando volvían a su posición inicial, era verde y fulguraban los distintos tonos de los pastos, que parecían brotes tiernos aunque ya casi nada brotaba. Más bien volvía todo a la tierra haciéndose marrón, iba del verde claro, el amarillo, el oro y el ocre a la caída. Otra vez respirábamos, como si hubiéramos salido de una cueva, como si el aire de la estancia hubiera sido turbio, pesado [...].”
― Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, Las aventuras de la China Iron