treelessness

To me no place could be more unattractive than Colorado Springs, from its utter treelessness.

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains 2007

Back at his station, sitting on the veranda of the Government Bungalow, he had the perverse idea that treelessness might make for a restful tour.

Excerpt: The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru 2002

Kossara sat down on what resembled pale grass and wasn't, hugged herself against the bitter breeze and stared across treelessness beneath a wan sun.

A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1974

Jefferies, who lived for a while at Hove, blessed also the treelessness of Brighton.

Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

I am speaking chiefly of the western part of Normandy: the parts about Caen approach more nearly to the flatness, monotony, and dreary treelessness of ordinary French and

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 Various

There are the same white, sandy banks, the same narrow fringe of verdure on each side, the same bareness and treelessness of the surrounding landscape, the same sun-scorched, stony hillocks; in fact, the whole look of the place is almost identical.

With Rimington L. March Phillipps

But even in the matter of its treelessness, I'm told, the prairie is reforming.

The Prairie Child Arthur Stringer 1912

There was the supposed treelessness of Scotland, on which he dwells in the

Dr. Johnson and His Circle John Cann Bailey 1897

Nothing seems so wonderful to me as the utter treelessness of the vast Canterbury plains; occasionally you pass a few Ti-ti palms (ordinarily called cabbage-trees), or a large prickly bush which goes by the name of

Station Life in New Zealand 1871

After the utter treelessness of our own immediate neighbourhood, the sight of such a mass of foliage is

Station Life in New Zealand 1871