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Plants, grass, and trees are pretty. People tend to feel good looking at them rather than just concrete, asphalt, and plastic. Lawns attract birds and bees an
by nineplay 6y ago
Plants, grass, and trees are pretty. People tend to feel good looking at them rather than just concrete, asphalt, and plastic. Lawns attract birds and bees and butterflies and bugs. I don't think there's any real mystery about why people like lawns.
- anaerobicover 6y agoWell, small proviso: yards with (flowering) plants attract birds, bugs, etc. Wide expanses of constantly-mowed grass lawn do not so much.
- sokoloff 6y agoThe grass part of my yard feeds many rabbits and birds (grass and worms, respectively). Other than when covered with snowpack, it’s rare to go two days without seeing a rabbit and birds are feeding every morning, especially after rains (that bring the worms higher). This is in a small city yard that’s mostly grass.
- anaerobicover 6y agoSure, rabbits are happy enough with mowed grass, but if you asked them, they'd probably rather you didn't cut the tender tips off all the time. :) And the species of birds that hunt worms in the ground are a very small subset of what you could find in a city. (I would venture you're mostly seeing robins.)
- Barrin92 6y agothat's an argument for a nice garden you find in the British countryside, but the manicured American suburban lawn looks like something ordered out of an ecommerce store, factory produced. Actually urban concrete jungle is more interesting.