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In reply to the discussion: I really hate mowing the grass. Anyone else out there whose NOT into "perfect" green grass? [View all]d_r
(6,908 posts)I once heard a botonist say that the entire history of life on earth was a great war between the trees and the grasses, and we are just unwitting pawns in this epic struggle.
I think about all that energy from the sun being soaked up by the grass, and then not only do we just waste that energy, but we use more energy to get rid of the grass. Think about a yard, then the next yard, all the way across town across the country across the world. That's a lot of wasted energy.
I really think we ought to have community goats or sheep. I know that sounds crazy. But we could take that energy from the sun that the grass is storing up and convert it into meat that we could eat rather than just cutting it down.
But I live on the side of a hill in Tn. that is really, really hard to mow.