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tofutina 's review for:
The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
by Margaret Renkl
informative
inspiring
reflective
five stars for this:
"Homeowners are still in thrall to a status symbol invented by English nobility. People enraptured with the idea of a lawn as a rolling carpet of grass, a green that remains green even during season when grass is supposed to be dormant, can't help but see these homely flowers as intruders.
"Homeowners are still in thrall to a status symbol invented by English nobility. People enraptured with the idea of a lawn as a rolling carpet of grass, a green that remains green even during season when grass is supposed to be dormant, can't help but see these homely flowers as intruders.
They consider this question, if they consider it at all, as a matter of personal preference: I like wildflowers, and they like grass. But with biodiversity disappearing from every ecosystem on the planet, including our own, our preferences aren't ethically equal. Lawns are a waste of precious water and soil because non-native landscaping like turf grass (...) provide little habitat or food for native wildlife."