Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When I was 7, I started playing with a club. The only grass on the field was in the corner. There was no grass in the middle! It was just sand.
The dirt was OK, but once you hit the grass... Wet grass is slippery.
If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.
This generation should entertain this generation. It's only fair. When I was a kid, I mowed the lawn. Now, somebody else's kid can mow the lawn.
We were soon free of the woods and bushes, and fairly upon the broad prairie.
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'
Kids think of us as being totally over the hill.
I think right now in the world we're feeling like there's no solid ground beneath our feet, you know?
I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.
From our broadcasting box you can't see any grass at all. It is simply a carpet of humanity.