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.
Sempre pensara — e até escrevera no meu primeiro livro que era um livro sobre jardinagem — que os relvados eram a natureza sob a bota da cultura, que eram paisagens totalitárias e que, quando os aparamos,  estamos a suprimir cruelmente a espécie sem nunca os deixar criar sementes, morrer ou fazer sexo.