Not everyone love lawns though, there's even an entire subreddit dedicated to hating them: https://www.reddit.com/r/fucklawns/
Same crowd as r/fuckcars and r/antiwork or distinct?
Why are we so obsessed with lawns?
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#22Mowing two weeks of summer growth just before a thunderstorm is peak vibes.
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#23Engraved deep down in our primitive brain is the profound fear of high grass and forestry, which conceal bears, wolves, snakes, ticks and a lot of other dangers.
Thus, we have the natural inclination to raze it all and leave a very flat grass surface where no animal goes unnoticed.
This ends up translating into modern lawns a few hundreds of centuries later.
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#24If you want to be able to walk around the garden, rather than just stare at it from the window, you're going to need gravel, concrete, or a lawn. I know which I prefer.
You don't need to concrete the whole thing. A few paths is enough.
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I recently tore out my lawn and co-designed a native yard with my kids. We designed a map together with very narrow wood chip paths to play on and brought in soil to create berms for height variety. They love running around playing tag or hiding from each other. Once they get older I can imagine friends will enjoy capture the flag or foam dart wars in the space. We had one small japanese maple tree that they designat…
I don't know how this is a counter-point, isn't it just a point? Can lawns co-exist with no lawns? EDIT: parent has removed "counter-point".
Indeed. Small lawn for sports and activites + large forest garden is a nice combo if it's an option.
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#27Engraved deep down in our primitive brain is the profound fear of high grass and forestry, which conceal bears, wolves, snakes, ticks and a lot of other dangers. Thus, we have the natural inclination to raze it all and leave a very flat grass surface where no animal goes unnoticed. This ends up translating into modern lawns a few hundreds of centuries later.
this is obviously bs, the lawn thing is mostly a north-american obsession. most people here in europe like shade and thus higher vegetation in their gardens.
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#30Engraved deep down in our primitive brain is the profound fear of high grass and forestry, which conceal bears, wolves, snakes, ticks and a lot of other dangers. Thus, we have the natural inclination to raze it all and leave a very flat grass surface where no animal goes unnoticed. This ends up translating into modern lawns a few hundreds of centuries later.
this is obviously bs, the lawn thing is mostly a north-american obsession. most people here in europe like shade and thus higher vegetation in their gardens.
The above comment is a prime example of pseudo-paleo rubbish confirming anything and predicting nothing. Popper would have a field day.