No, you would miss out on the feel of soft grass under your bare feet Should have made this more clear perhaps, but I only put in that farmer's concrete quote

No, you would miss out on the feel of soft grass under your bare feet Should have made this more clear perhaps, but I only put in that farmer's concrete quote (which I don't agree with for the reasons you mention) for the biodiversity aspect not everything else grass-related :) A lot of people find lawn-mowing relaxing. Yes but that is true for me as well so doesn't really explain why more than one neighbour made a similar comment about me spending more time mowing than they do while in reality it's the opposite, by far. Maybe it's just coincidence (N=3) and/or maybe they were just making conversation or so. probably better Considering the biological side, it's way beyond 'probably'. For example [1] gives a rather high-level overview and [2] goes into (one of) the more specific aspects. [3] also talks about the history/future bits. [1] https://www.nature.com/articles/nature19092 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature19092 [2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320717306201 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000632071... [3] https://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6411/148.full https://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6411/148.full