Green Landscaping with Native Plants: Weedlaws  A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise The Land Ethic 1 I. INTRODUCTION The natural landscaping 147;movement”2 has taken root and its...

"THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE AN AMERICAN PROVERB OF DISCONTENT  One of the most frequent questions that people ask of a paremiologist is, without doubt, how old a particular proverb might be. While the origin of some proverbs has been studied in detailed diachronic essays or monographs,1 very little is...

Grass is the forgiveness of nature In Praise of Blue Grass by Senator John James Ingalls  Lying in the sunshine among the buttercups and dandelions of May, scarcely higher in intelligence than the minute tenants of that mimic wilderness, our earliest recollections are of grass; and when the fitful fever is ended, and the foolish wrangle...