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To: Krowbar who wrote (17571)	2/9/1998 10:20:00 AM
From: Tommaso	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I live in North Carolina. Yes, a lot of the yard is also planted in wildflowers, though I am not sure what will still be there this year. There were supposed to be a lot of perennials in the mixture I put out, but I am not very confident of the annuals reseeding. It will be interesting to see what come up--actually I can tell there's a lot there wintering over. When I first moved in, it took two hours with a power mower to do the lawn. What's left in grass I can now do in 20 minutes. We need some grass for a badminton court. Those who hate lawns might read Thorstein Veblen's book, Theory of the Leisure Class, an American classic in economics. He's very sardonic about the display of unused pasture that a lawn represents. Some time in the last couple of years there was a carefully-researched article in The Scientific American about the regrowth of forests in the Eastern United States. Given the fact that it seems unlikely that the entire population of the country will move away in order to allow "nature" to restore itself (assuming that human beings are unnatural), the best thing seems to be the kind of accommodation reached in much of Europe and Great Britain between human beings and at least some other forms of animal and vegetable life.