With upper- and middle-class lawns, there's more hidden, whereas with working-class or poor lawns, there's more out to see. It just sits right out there. Very honest. Like the people.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.
Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
The grass isn't always greener on the other side!
Grass-roots work is not flashy, and rarely celebrated on the national media level, but that is where change begins.
I love being a part of something that is grassroots, and you can see the actual changes, the effect of what people do.
I mow my own lawn.
From our broadcasting box you can't see any grass at all. It is simply a carpet of humanity.
If having a beautiful lawn means putting up warning signs several times a year to keep children and pets off of it, it's probably a good idea to look into alternatives.
I spent a lot of time on farms when I was growing up, and I've been obsessed with the practical logic of farmyards - the turning radius of tractors, where the chickens and ducks might go. It's not a place where stand-alone aesthetic decisions make a lot of sense.
A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.