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  • Another day it occurred to me that time as we know it doesn't exist in a lawn, since grass never dies or is allowed to flower and set seed. Lawns are nature purged of sex or death. No wonder Americans like them so much. -- Michael Pollan
  • Lawns are a form of television -- Michael Pollan
  • A lot of parts of L.A. are interchangeable with suburbs in Joburg. Very big, ostentatious houses with palm trees and lawns. Lawns are very important. Never underestimate lawns. -- Neill Blomkamp
  • A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule. -- Michael Pollan
  • The fairies break their dances And leave the printed lawn. -- A. E. Housman
  • Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life. -- Charles M. Schulz
  • If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn. -- Andrew Mason
  • My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance. -- Tim Allen
  • My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns, / Shall with their goat-feet dance an antic hay. -- Christopher Marlowe
  • They're a rotten crowd', I shouted across the lawn. 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn: the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me. -- James Russell Lowell
  • Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain -- Jack Kerouac
  • This generation should entertain this generation. It's only fair. When I was a kid, I mowed the lawn. Now, somebody else's kid can mow the lawn. -- Tom T. Hall
  • Society is like a lawn, where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface -- Washington Irving
  • It's hard and sometimes it's scary. It still amazes my mother. I went home for Christmas one year and there were fans all over the front lawn, hoping to see me. -- Luke Perry
  • I have to say I've worked very few days of my life. I used to have to cut the lawn, and when I was in junior high school, I worked at a concession stand at a stadium. -- Steve Nash
  • The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady. -- Richard M. Nixon
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  • I wanted the influence. In the end I wasn't very good at being a president. I looked out of the window and thought that the man cutting the lawn actually seemed to have more control over what he was doing. -- Warren Bennis
  • I don't force it. If you don't have an idea and you don't hear anything going over and over in your head, don't sit down and try to write a song. You know, go mow the lawn...My songs speak for themselves. -- Neil Young
  • We didn't have a whole lot of money when I was growing up either. I would always ask for magic books or magic tricks for my birthday or for Christmas and the rest of the year I either had to mow lawns or find part time jobs to help supplement the cost of doing magic. -- Lance Burton
  • When I was a kid, I was always around boys. I was always trying to keep up with boys - skateboarding and snowboarding. If my brother was mowing the lawn, I had to mow the lawn. If my brother was using a hammer, I needed to use a hammer. I've always been a little bit of a feminist. -- Daria Werbowy
  • My parents were kind of over protective people. Me and my sister had to play in the backyard all the time. They bought us bikes for Christmas but wouldn't let us ride in the street, we had to ride in the backyard. Another Christmas, my dad got me a basketball hoop and put it in the middle of the lawn! You can't dribble on grass. -- Jimmy Fallon
  • Some lawns have all the cheer of old cemeteries. -- Richard Brookhiser
  • America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds. -- Ernest Hemingway
  • Somewhere, a long way away, people are doing sensible things like mowing lawns and digging gardens. -- Michael Palin
  • We must plant trees, grow gardens instead of lawns, ride bicycles when we can and support responsible local businesses over big brands. -- Bryant H. McGill
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  • We must plant trees, grow gardens instead of lawns, ride bicycles when we can and support responsible local businesses over big brands. -- Bryant H. McGill
  • In Austin, the eco-capital of Texas, residents tend to favor native plants and wildflowers to the sculpted lawns of the Palm Springs variety. -- Douglas Brinkley
  • The summer night was settling upon the neighborhood like a dark lace veil, casting dappled shadows on the roofs and sidewalks and lawns. -- Victoria Kahler
  • And that heart which was a wild garden was given to him who only loved trim lawns. And the imbecile carried the princess into slavery. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • The government could take away all the drugs in the world and people would spin around on their lawns until they fell down and saw God. -- Dennis Miller
  • I'll toss my coins in the fountain, Look for clovers in grassy lawns Search for shooting stars in the night Cross my fingers and dream on. -- Tracy Chapman
  • Some ideas, like dandelions in lawns, strike tenaciously: you may pull off the top but the root remains, drives down suckers and may even sprout again. -- Elizabeth Bowen
  • Atrazine - a herbicide often used on corn fields, golf courses and even lawns - has become one of the most common contaminants in American drinking water. -- Charles Duhigg
  • Long ago life was clean, sex was bad and obscene, and the rich were so mean. Stately homes for the Lords, croquet lawns, village greens, Victoria was my queen. -- Ray Davies
  • Forty percent of the United States drains into the Mississippi. It's agriculture. It's golf courses. It's domestic runoff from our lawns and roads. Ultimately, where does it go? Downstream into the gulf. -- Sylvia Earle
  • You have to get over the color green; you have to quit associating beauty with gardens and lawns; you have to get used to an inhuman scale; you have to understand geological time. -- Wallace Stegner
  • A properly functioning free market system does not spring spontaneously from society's soil as crabgrass springs from suburban lawns. Rather, it is a complex creation of laws and mores... Capitalism is a government program. -- George Will
  • Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture windows, adopt pets and Boston ferns, and scent everything that touches our lives. -- Diane Ackerman
  • The castle grounds were gleaming in the sunlight as though freshly painted; the cloudless sky smiled at itself in the smoothly sparkling lake, the satin-green lawns rippled occasionally in a gentle breeze: June had arrived. -- J. K. Rowling
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