Is the manicured lawn a shrine to the false notion that man is no longer at the behest of nature because he has killed god and conquered his enviornment with science and technology? Is it a standing challenge, for God to prove man otherwise?

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Sigh. Sometimes a lawn is just a lawn. While I agree with you that the use of chemicals on lawns and vanity watering must stop as a waste of resources, man’s impulse to groom his own little slice of wilderness is ancient. Look at the Olmstead Brothers and the park legacy they left.

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