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From: dyer@vaxuum.DEC (This did not happen to/Pablo Picasso)
Newsgroups: net.garden
Subject: Re: Grass
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Date: Tue, 6-Aug-85 00:18:35 EDT
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Re: Grass_______________________________________________________________________

	I hate power mowers.  They're a waste of non-renewable fuel, they pol-
lute, they're dangerous, and they're far too noisy.  I hate the whole idea of
"keeping up with the Joneses," especially since America uses more fertilizer for
its lawns than India does for food!  Finally, I find antiseptic rolling fields
of untouchable green grass aesthetically revolting.
	But most of all, I hate power mowers.
	Perhaps it's my hatred of power mowers that led me to invent Dyer's
Rule of Lawnmowing:  You don't need more lawn than that which you will mow with
a manual lawn mower.  If you use your lawn for, let's say, volleyball, then
you've got the strength to manually mow the volleyball field.
	What about the rest of the property?  I guess the first thing to do is
to keep the developers [sic] from knocking down every tree on the lot before
they put up a house (which appears to be standard operating procedure in these
parts).  The rest can be planted with vegetables, herbs, and wildflowers in an
organic self-regenerative way.  (Has anybody read _The_One_Straw_Revolution_?)
		<_Jym_>

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