Doing my part through neglect, laziness, and attrition!
I am way ahead of the crowd on this one.
Will read this later but there’s a break in the clouds and the sun is shining and all my neighbors have just started their mowers. Will read this after I’ve taken care of my portion of the American Dream.
R2z
I don’t let people outside of my family venture onto my property and engage in activity that can cause injury.
He’s too lazy to mow his grass so he has deemed lawns outdated. Yeah, I guess paint on the house, and picking up trash in your yard is overrated too.
my 30 acres is a hay field - nice and even in height, blows in the wind - I love it - but I do mow a couple of times a year around the house as the tall grass hides varmints and I don’t want those up close to the house.
If you don’t mow your lawn i.e. the grass in many parts of the country, when you step out to play with the kids you might find you and your family stepping on some unwanted yard guests. You know, snakes, scorpions, certain smelly mammals all of whom like deep grass for cover.
Yeah — leftists always have a point. And their point is to tell you how to live.
If by “American lawns” he means “American leftists,” I will agree.
He might be right, in Dallas. Where I live, we get twice the rainfall as Dallas during the summer months.
Grass isn’t the only possible landscaping. It’s easier to tend though, and nobody says it really needs anything beyond a lawn mower if one is willing to tolerate some weeds.
Oops, you can add gasoline-guzzling, racist suburbanites to that list, also.
Leni
Yup. We live in the sticks, way back off the road; house not visible from the one-way access road. Yard full of moss; a little bit of grass, sparse backyard. Husband mows it; but it’s not manicured. Big dog rolling in the dusty bare spots; her and the cat.
If that were the author's only point I'd be in full agreement, but I have seen liberals jump on this "lawns are an ecological nightmare" bandwagon before, and frankly, this article seems to be a thin attempt to drive that agenda.
For some reason, liberals are never satisfied until everybody is as slovenly and degraded as they are. And then they moan and complain with contempt and envy that the only reason all those hard-working people got to where they are is because of "white privilege". You know, the "rich" stole it off the backs of others so we must tear them down.
Yeah, he's just talking about lawns, but it is a unique metaphorical example of the liberal mindset.
He has a point... on his head.
Look, the lawn is native to damp Scotland. It works great in the Eastern US. If it doesn’t work great in Texas, say Texans shouldn’t imitate those Easterners. Leave us Easterners alone.
Yup, lawns suck. Time wasted keeping them manicured, gardening space wasted, natural diversity forbidden.
Housing development (a poorly applied term in this case) Serenbe in Georgia http://serenbe.com bans mowed lawns. Most lawns are nicely kept and interesting, either as gardens or curated natural mini fields/forests.
“At the time, I chalked this up to my neighbor being an uptight jerk, an assessment I stand by.”
Wrong. My lawn, my land. Stay the hell off it and keep your opinions to yourself.