It shall be landscaped with Damascene roses.

Private lawns, public parks

Right, like cutting lawns is brutal.

And that is, make meadows and not lawns.

You had sidewalks and lawns out in front.

Five percent of our greenhouse gases are produced by mowing our lawns.

And if we look at the history of lawns, it's actually rather tragic.

I want to say this not because I'm opposed completely to mowing lawns.

Americans spent, in 2001 11 percent of all pesticide use was done on lawns.

Just like a graffiti artist, where they beautify walls, me, I beautify lawns, parkways.

Oh, you'll find some place with white columns and green lawns and high tuition.

And so it's incredible the amount of resources we've spent keeping our lawns, which are these useless biosystems.

The large siheyuans of these high ranking officials and wealthy merchants often featured beautifully carved and painted roof beams and pillars and carefully landscaped gardens.

It's the most beautiful room in the house, the only one that looks down across the lawns to the sea.

I think that there is perhaps some advantage to keeping lawns at a limited scale, and I think we're encouraged to do that.

I'm a dupe. I'm a dupe of the lawns, whose goal in life is to outcompete the trees, who they compete with for sunlight.

Now, not all of us have meadows, or lawns that we can convert, and so you can always, of course, grow a meadow in a pot.

The patrol surveys meticulously maintained one family houses with groomed gardens, and modern company buildings that stretch along wide, clean concrete streets, interrupted by trees and lawns.

But because I had to cut lawns all summer for all of our neighbors and get paid to do that, I realized that recurring revenue from one client is amazing.

Elsewhere, the landscaped gardens and shops along the two pedestrian streets at Huigong Road and Wanda Plaza have been upgraded, with approximately 300 trees planted, and 40,000 sqm of floor space revamped, lifting the image of Nanping Business District.

I had thought always and in fact, had written this in my first book this was a book about gardening that lawns were nature under culture's boot, that they were totalitarian landscapes, and that when we mowed them we were cruelly suppressing the species and never letting it set seed or die or have sex.