D.F. Sarmiento describes The Pampas

"In the central zone . . . the plain and the forest long contend with each other for the possession of the soil; the trees prevail for some distance, but gradually dwindle into stunted and thorny bushes, only reappearing in belts of forest along the banks of the streams, until finally in the south, the victory remains with the plain, which displays its smooth, velvet-like surface unbounded and unbroken. It is the image of the sea upon the map — the earth yet waiting for the command to bring forth every herb yielding see after its kind."

- D.F. Sarmiento, Argentine activist, writer, and the seventh President of Argentina